Altmetrics coming of age? Not for Wikipedia
Ten days ago Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) published a special issue on altmetrics. I was the guest editor for the...
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CSL is more than citation styles
According to the description on the Citation Style Language (CSL) website, CSL is an open XML-based language to describe the formatting of citations and bibliographies. We use reference managers such as Zotero, Mendeley, or Papers to...
What a publication timeline can tell you
Now that I can automatically import my publications from my ORCID profile and display them in this blog, I also want to visualize them. I have started with d3.js code that displays the number of...
Automatically list all your publications in your blog
A common feature of blogs written by scientists is a listing of all their publications. Publication lists are a great way to provide background information about your research. Publication lists should provide links to the fulltext...
Citeproc YAML for bibliographies
The standard local file formats for bibliographic data are probably bibtex and RIS. They have been around for a long...
RSS Feeds for Scholarly Authors
Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID) provides a persistent identifier for researchers and lets them claim their research outputs in the ORCID Registry. I have been involved with ORCID since early 2010 and I am happy...