Fair citations

• Overview
• Data sources
• Content
• Installation
• Usage
• Citation
• Contributing
• Acknowledgments
• References

Overview

Research compendium to reproduce analyses and figures of the following article:

Strategic citations for a fairer academic landscape, by Beck M, Busana M, Birre D, Oliveira B, Vagnon C, Marino C, Coux C, Casajus N, Mouquet N, Unkula M, Veytia D, Petit-Cailleux C, Nicvert L, Speakman C & Annasawmy PA. Submitted to Proc B - Biological Science Practices.

Data sources

This project uses the following databases:

Database	Usage	Reference	Link
Dafnee	Provide publisher business model	-	link
OpenAlex	Retrieve scientific publications	Priem J, Piwowar H & Orr R (2022)	link

Workflow

The analysis pipeline follows these steps:

1. Retrieve Dafnee journal metadata in OpenAlex
2. Retrieve articles metadata for these journals in 2023 (using OpenAlex)
3. Retrieve cited references for these articles (using OpenAlex)
4. Aggregate citation by types (non-profit & for-profit) for each article
5. Compute citation ratios (NP & FP) per journal and per publishing model
6. Plot the distribution of journal ratios

Content

This repository is structured as follow:

• DESCRIPTION: contains project metadata (authors, description, license, dependencies, etc.).

• make.R: main R script to set up and run the entire project. Open this file to follow the workflow step by step.

• data/: contains raw data used in this project.

• R/: contains R functions developed especially for this project.

• analyses/: contains R scripts used in this project and called by the make.R.

• figures/: contains the figures of the project.

• outputs/: contains the outputs of the project.

Installation

To install this compendium:

• Fork this repository using the GitHub interface.
• Clone your fork using git clone fork-url (replace fork-url by the URL of your fork). Alternatively, open RStudio IDE and create a New Project from Version Control.

Usage

Launch the make.R file with:

source("make.R")

Notes

• All required packages listed in the DESCRIPTION file will be installed (if necessary)
• All required packages and R functions will be loaded
• Some steps listed in the make.R might take time (several hours)

Citation

Please use the following citation:

Coming soon…

Contributing

All types of contributions are encouraged and valued. For more information, check out our Contributor Guidelines.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

Acknowledgments

This project is a collaborative work among FRB-CESAB scientific team.

References

Priem J, Piwowar H & Orr R (2022) OpenAlex: A fully-open index of scholarly works, authors, venues, institutions, and concepts. ArXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01833.