Zim zim-wiki.org/
Local only.
WYSIWYG:
- bold
- images
- lists. But it is either hard or impossible to have a paragraph inside a list item.
Mathematics requires a plugin and a full LaTeX install: zim-wiki.org/manual/Plugins/Equation_Editor.html They have a bunch of plugins: zim-wiki.org/manual/Plugins.html
Can only link to toplevel of each source, not subheaders? And subpages get forced scope. github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki
Publishing to static HTML can be done with:The output does not contain any table of contents? There is a plugin however: zim-wiki.org/manual/Plugins/Table_Of_Contents.html
zim --export Notes -o outE.g. list of papers by Isidor Isaac Rabi which includes A New Method of Measuring Nuclear Magnetic Moment.
But unfortunately they don't have paper to paper citations.
neurotree.org/neurotree/faq.php explains that you have to contact an admin to download the database, kind of sad:
How can I export tree data for my own analysis?Registered users should contact the site administrator (admin at neurotree dot org) for instructions on how to export data from the tree database.
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.
This amazing data source contains both:
- all papers by author
- papers cited by papers
Full database download is described at: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/download/
The only problem with it is scope, being life sciences-only.
- What motivates the WikiGnomes?A: ObSouthPark:
- Clean up zillions of WikiPages.
- ???
- PROFIT!!
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiGnome
It appears to only extract structured data from Wikipedia, not natural language, so it is kind of basic then.
These are free to query, but you can't download their database. For those that allow database download see: Open academic paper database.
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.
Peter Mortensen is by far the largest serial editor on Stack Overflow, making predominantly style and grammar edits.
He is the prototypical WikiGnome.
His edit count is insane, ~127k as of November 2024 and increasing.
As per Users with most posts edited and stackoverflow.com/users?tab=Editors&filter=all he was the second most prolific editor of all time as of 2024, surpassed only by
marc_s.
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. Possibly a Tawny owl.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.
- all papers by a given author
- all citations of a given paper
There are unlisted articles, also show them or only show them.