APIs Quick Reference Guide
- Explanation and use cases for Clarivate APIs
Highlights
A Flask application with a simple graphical user interface to analyse and visualise the cited references data from Web of Science Core Collection. The application retrieves the data using Web of Science Expanded API.
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A Flask application with a simple graphical user interface to analyse and visualise organizational research output using fractional counting approach that retrieves data using Web of Science Expanded API.
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A minimalistic Flask application to evaluate the self-citation percentage for a set of Web of Science documents at any level of user's preference. The app relies on retrieving the publication data via Web of Science Expanded API.
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Other API use cases
A simple application with tkinter-based graphical user interface to evaluate a set of Web of Science documents for the cities in which this research has been made - or to evaluate a specific organization for which cities it mostly collaborates with. The code relies on Web of Science article data obtained using Web of Science Expanded API.
All Author IDs affiliated with an organization - and their authorships
A simple script to retrieve all author identifiers associated with a certain Affiliation (or Organisational profile) in the Web of Science Core Collection. The code relies on Web of Science article data obtained using Web of Science Expanded API.
Web of Science Grants Index analysis and visualizations
A Flask application with a simple graphical user interface to analyse and visualise the grant data from Web of Science Grants Index. The application retrieves the grant data via Web of Science Expanded API
Web of Science to VOSviewer Exporter
A Flask application for exporting the necessary metadata via Web of Science Expanded API to use it in the VOSviewer
A program with a simple GUI that extracts the researchers data from an organisational search using Researcher API, and organises it into an Excel table
A simple script that calculates 4 basic metrics that can be found in Web of Science Citation Report. The code relies on Web of Science Core Collection article data obtained using Web of Science Starter API.
A simple Python app that uses Web of Science Starter API and Flask to create an HTML page with 5 most recent Web of Science Core Collection records
Other use cases – scripts and applications on R:
Starter API:
Retrieve Web of Science search query results into an R dataframe This link opens in a new window
A simplest possible script that retrieves Web of Science documents metadata into an R dataframe. If you're new to R and/or Starter API, try this script to figure out how to send API requests, to paginate, convert into a dataframe, and try basic plotting.
Expanded API:
Web of Science to Bibliometrix / Biblioshiny exporter This link opens in a new window
A simple R script that retrieves Web of Science documents metadata into a raw text format acceptable by both Bibliometrix R package and Biblioshiny app. Uses Web of Science Expanded API to extract the documents metadata.