By "Academic paper database" we mean a database that collects paper metadata such as authors and citations, but not necessarily the full article content.
Academia is so broken that there isn't even one be-all and end-all database of:It's closed access academic journals are evil to the extreme.
By "open" we also mean that you can download their database locally and that it has an open license, not just free access.
TODO evaluate:
- www.crossref.org/. No papers by author attempt unless they have ORCID: community.crossref.org/t/get-all-works-of-a-particular-author-without-orcid/3751 so what's the point of this project? www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/ this Funder registry thing sounds cool though.
Full database download is described at: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/download/
The only problem with it is scope, being life sciences-only.
E.g. list of papers by Isidor Isaac Rabi which includes A New Method of Measuring Nuclear Magnetic Moment.
neurotree.org/neurotree/faq.php explains that you have to contact an admin to download the database, kind of sad:
That page also explains how they disambiguate authors with the same name:
How do you identify researchers' publications?Publications data are drawn from two databases: Medline and Scopus. Because of the large number of researchers with the same name, a disambiguation algorithm is required to accurately link researchers to papers they have authored. We match authors to papers using a two-step process. First, we identify candidate publications based on a simple string match between researcher name and the author list. Second, we look for overlap between co-authors and other individuals in the researcher's mentor network (trainees, mentors, collaborators, etc), and label publications with overlap as high-probability matches. Thus a complete family tree is likely to produce more accurate publication matches.
These are free to query, but you can't download their database. For those that allow database download see: Open academic paper database.
Does this contain any structured data? E.g. can you list all papers by a given author besides just searching and hoping there are no homonyms?
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