Altmetrics from anywhere

The Lagotto application is a Rails app that collects and serves up via RESTful API article level metrics data for research objects. So far, this application has only been applied to scholarly articles, but will see action on datasets soon.

Martin Fenner has lead the development of Lagotto. He recently set up a discussion site if you want to chat about it.

The application has a nice GUI interface, and a quite nice RESTful API.

Lagotto is open source! Because of this, and the quality of the software, other publishers have started using it to gather and deliver publicly article level metrics data, including:

The PLOS instance at https://alm.plos.org/ is always the most up to date with the Lagotto software, but Crossref has the largest number of articles.

I’ve been working on three clients for the Lagotto REST API, including for a while now on R, recently on Python, and just last week on Ruby.

Please do try the clients, report bugs, request features - you know the open source drill…

I’d say the R client is the most mature, while Python is less so, end the Ruby gem the least mature.

Installation

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ropensci/alm")

Python

git clone https://github.com/cameronneylon/pyalm.git
cd pyalm
git checkout scott
python setup.py install

Ruby

gem install httparty json rake
git clone https://github.com/sckott/alm.git
cd alm
make # which runs build and install tasks

If you don’t have make, then just run gem build alm.gemspec and gem install alm-0.1.0.gem seperately.

Example

In this example, we’ll get altmetrics data for two DOIs: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029797, and 10.1371/journal.pone.0029798 (click on links to go to paper).

R

library('alm')
ids <- c("10.1371/journal.pone.0029797","10.1371/journal.pone.0029798")
alm_ids(ids, info="summary")
#> $meta
#>   total total_pages page error
#> 1     2           1    1    NA
#> 
#> $data
#> $data$`10.1371/journal.pone.0029798`
#> $data$`10.1371/journal.pone.0029798`$info
#>                            doi
#> 1 10.1371/journal.pone.0029798
#>                                                                                     title
#> 1 Mitochondrial Electron Transport Is the Cellular Target of the Oncology Drug Elesclomol
#>                                                                canonical_url
#> 1 https://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0029798
#>       pmid   pmcid                        mendeley_uuid
#> 1 22253786 3256171 b08cc99e-b526-3f0c-adaa-d5ee6d0d978a
#>            update_date     issued
#> 1 2014-12-09T02:52:47Z 2012-01-11
#> 
#> $data$`10.1371/journal.pone.0029798`$signposts
#>                            doi viewed saved discussed cited
#> 1 10.1371/journal.pone.0029798   4346    14         2    26
#> 
#> 
#> $data$`10.1371/journal.pone.0029797`
#> $data$`10.1371/journal.pone.0029797`$info
#>                            doi
#> 1 10.1371/journal.pone.0029797
#>                                                                             title
#> 1 Ecological Guild Evolution and the Discovery of the World's Smallest Vertebrate
#>                                                                canonical_url
#> 1 https://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0029797
#>       pmid   pmcid                        mendeley_uuid
#> 1 22253785 3256195 897fbbd6-5a23-3552-8077-97251b82c1e1
#>            update_date     issued
#> 1 2014-12-09T02:52:46Z 2012-01-11
#> 
#> $data$`10.1371/journal.pone.0029797`$signposts
#>                            doi viewed saved discussed cited
#> 1 10.1371/journal.pone.0029797  34282    81       244     8

Python

import pyalm
ids = ["10.1371/journal.pone.0029797","10.1371/journal.pone.0029798"]
pyalm.get_alm(ids, info="summary")

#> {'articles': [<ArticleALM Mitochondrial Electron Transport Is the Cellular Target of the Oncology Drug Elesclomol,
#> DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0029798>,
#>   <ArticleALM Ecological Guild Evolution and the Discovery of the World's Smallest Vertebrate,
#>         DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0029797>],
#>  'meta': {u'error': None, u'page': 1, u'total': 2, u'total_pages': 1}}

Ruby

require 'alm'
Alm.alm(ids: ["10.1371/journal.pone.0029797","10.1371/journal.pone.0029798"], key: ENV['PLOS_API_KEY'])

#> => {"total"=>2,
#>  "total_pages"=>1,
#>  "page"=>1,
#>  "error"=>nil,
#>  "data"=>
#>   [{"doi"=>"10.1371/journal.pone.0029798",
#>     "title"=>"Mitochondrial Electron Transport Is the Cellular Target of the Oncology Drug Elesclomol",
#>     "issued"=>{"date-parts"=>[[2012, 1, 11]]},
#>     "canonical_url"=>"https://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0029798",
#>     "pmid"=>"22253786",
#>     "pmcid"=>"3256171",
#>     "mendeley_uuid"=>"b08cc99e-b526-3f0c-adaa-d5ee6d0d978a",
#>     "viewed"=>4346,
#>     "saved"=>14,
#>     "discussed"=>2,
#>     "cited"=>26,
#>     "update_date"=>"2014-12-09T02:52:47Z"},
#>    {"doi"=>"10.1371/journal.pone.0029797",
#>     "title"=>"Ecological Guild Evolution and the Discovery of the World's Smallest Vertebrate",
#>     "issued"=>{"date-parts"=>[[2012, 1, 11]]},
#>     "canonical_url"=>"https://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0029797",
#>     "pmid"=>"22253785",
#>     "pmcid"=>"3256195",
#>     "mendeley_uuid"=>"897fbbd6-5a23-3552-8077-97251b82c1e1",
#>     "viewed"=>34282,
#>     "saved"=>81,
#>     "discussed"=>244,
#>     "cited"=>8,
#>     "update_date"=>"2014-12-09T02:52:46Z"}]}

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