Data

Data Sources for Research Information

Author
Affiliation

KTHB - Bibliometrics

KTH, Royal Institute of Technology

Mobilized data sources for KTH

The primary focus in this listing of data sources are to the following entities:

  • Researchers
  • Organisations
  • Publications and other research outputs
  • Projects

Minio - provides S3 compatible “high performance object storage for modern data lakes” and is available at https://data.bibliometrics.lib.kth.se. This service provides internal and external access to various mobilized data sources at KTH. Some sources are open (🟢) while others are for internal use only (🔑).

Tabular overview for selected data sources

Persons

Who are researchers / authors at KTH?

External sources:

  • 🟢 Known persons from DiVA associated with KTH, use kthcorpus::kth_diva_authors()

Internal sources:

  • 🔑 Employees from KTH HR department, use kthcorpus::hr_plus() (S3 account required)
  • 🔑 Accounts from KTH UG, use kthapi::ug_orcid_kthid_unit() (LDAP system account required)
  • 🔑 Enumerate employees from KTH Web APIs for a specific slug, use kthapi::kth_catalog() (KTH API key required, call with slugs taken from kthapi::kth_school_dep())
  • 🔑 Researchers from BIBMET, use bibliomatrix::abm_researchers (requires db credentials)

Organisations

Which organisations are related to KTH research outputs?

  • 🟢 Internal organizational units within KTH from DiVA, use kthcorpus::diva_organisations_cora() or kthcorpus::diva_organisations()
  • 🔑 Known organisational units from BIBMET, use bibliomatrix::unit_info (requires db credentials)

Information about external organisations and funders:

  • 🟢 Institutes and organizations from the Research Organization Registry (and from GRID), use institutions::ror
  • 🟢 Search for European research funding organizations in EU’s “Funding and Tenders” portal API, including PIC identifers, use kthcorpus::funders_eu_search()
  • 🟢 Parse EU VAT and organisational numbers, use kthcorpus::vat_parse()
  • 🟢 Validate and resolve European VAT numbers, use kthcorpus::vat_resolve_vies()
  • 🟢 Open Funder Registry from Crossref contains info about 30K+ funders, use kthcorpus::cr_funders_resolve()
  • 🟢 All Swedish funders in the Crossref Open Funder Registry, use kthcorpus::cr_funders("Sweden")
  • 🟢 Redlisted research organizations, use unitracker

Publications and other outputs

Which publications and other research outputs are associated with KTH?

Internal sources:

  • 🟢 Known publications in DiVA associated with KTH, use kthcorpus::kth_diva_pubs()
  • 🔑 Information about publications from BIBMET, use bibliomatrix::masterfile

External sources:

  • 🟢 Publications related to KTH, use openalex

  • 🟢 Publications related to KTH including Peer Review API, use semanticscholar

  • 🟢 Publications related to KTH, use OpenAIRE

  • 🔑 Publications from Web of Science, use rwosstarter (with API-key from Clarivate)

  • 🔑 Publications from Scopus, use kthcorpus::scopus_search_id(), kthcorpus::scopus_search_kth() and kthcorpus::scopus_abstract_extended() (with Institutional API-key from Elsevier)

  • 🔑 Publications, conferences from IEEE, use IEEE

  • 🔑 Publications, patents, use The Lens

Projects

Which projects are researchers at KTH involved in?

Internal sources:

  • CASE - Closed (S3 bucket) - case.csv (2647x40)

External sources:

  • formas - Open- projects_formas.csv (471x21)
  • OpenAIRE - Open - projects_openaire.csv (813)
  • swecris - Open - projects_swecris.csv (3165x26)
  • vinnova - Open - projects_vinnova.csv (442x20)
  • cordis - Open - projects_cordis.csv (753x20)

Other potential data sources

Patents

  • Publications and patents from The Lens
  • Publications from PubMed

Topical

  • 🟢 Publications related to Computer Science, use dblp
  • 🔑 Publications for Mathematics, use https://zbmath.org/frequently-asked-questions/
  • 🔑 Publications for Mathematics, use https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/

Datasets

  • 🟢 DataCite
  • 🟢 Zenodo
  • 🔑 Invenio@KTH may provide

Peer review

Various sources listed at https://datamanagement.hms.harvard.edu/share/data-repositories

  • https://publons.com/api/v2/
  • DataCite
  • Dryad

Software

Code repositories and information about code and datasets

  • OpenAIRE - Open - Aggregator for code and datasets
  • IEEE - Closed - Aggregator with links to code repositories etc
  • GitHub
  • GitLab

Open Access