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@OpenAlex (#OpenAlex) has a friendly new user interface. It's beautifully simple & should bring this powerful tool to more users. Next time you have a research question, try it before #GoogleScholar or your other stand-bys. Or try both & compare. * searches titles, abstracts, full-text 16 comments
 @petersuber @OpenAlex Ooh, I'm definitely switching to this. Always hated that Google Scholar felt like a monopoly :/  @petersuber @OpenAlex I want this to succeed, but from my brief poking around it's nowhere near up to Google Scholar's standard. I search for "xenoposeidon" to find myself, clicked through to my author page at https://openalex.org/authors/a5069719980 and found I wrote 326 works (closer to 30), and have 10 affiliations (I have three). Obviously has me conflated with other Mike Taylors.  @mike @petersuber @OpenAlex I, too, have a name that is the same as another author and I found, contrary to its front-page claim, I was not disambiguated from her. Now to see if there's a way to help it learn which Jessamyn is which (since our bodies of work are really entirely different). @jessamyn @petersuber @OpenAlex Hopefully you find a way to "claim" some works, and disclaim others. Let me know!  @mike @jessamyn @petersuber @OpenAlex The odd result upon searching for my own name was that so many unrelated (to me) results showed up because of the abbreviation "Bodl." referring to the Bodleian Library. Truncation is not always your friend. @mike @jessamyn @petersuber @OpenAlex I too would love it if there were a way to curate lists. I need to check to see if there is a way to restrict searches to 'peer-reviewed items only', as there seems to be a lot of what I would consider chaff ... @mike @jessamyn @petersuber @OpenAlex ... or more generally to correct metadata. I appreciate that it's a SUPER hard problem (e.g., how do you validate suggested corrections/edits at scale?), but otherwise lots of manual post-processing is needed. One trivial example: two redundant entries here - https://openalex.org/works?page=1&filter=authorships.author.id%3AA5021063042,type%3Abook&sort=cited_by_count%3Adesc&group_by=publication_year,open_access.is_oa,authorships.institutions.lineage,type @jessamyn @mike @petersuber @OpenAlex as I just discovered this project not sure what operating model they have versus user feedback, maybe raising github issues? As an open source project they could use such feedback to iterate and improve. @petersuber @jessamyn @mike @OpenAlex I applaud the effort and believe in their approach. But, as others observed, there is much room for improvement (for instance, as to the access status: all my works have an OA version, but only 1/3 are labeled as such...). @petersuber @mike @OpenAlex Hey neat. That improves the output but it's still messy. Like, I was not alive when some of the works attributed to me (from the Other Jessamyn) were written. That should be a robot reality check. I mean, cleaning data is tough so I get it. I'm just surprised there's not an obvious way to report something amiss that is that basic @petersuber @OpenAlex can you create a profile like Google Scholad? I searched myself and it did a good job, but some papers werent mine @weberam2 @petersuber @OpenAlex You *can* get your data from the API and build a quick author page from it (I wrote an R howto here: https://leonardblaschek.github.io/replace_google_scholar.html) and do any manual filtering of the works that you need. It's not as straightforward as setting up a GS page, but it'll give you a lot more control. |
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@petersuber @OpenAlex this is really cool.