Using the power of Python and Jupyter notebooks to automate analysis of scientific literature
Project description
litstudy
litstudy
is a Python package that allows analysis of scientific literature from the comfort of a Jupyter notebook.
It enables selecting scientific publications and study their metadata using visualizations, network analysis, and natural language processing.
In essense, this package offers five features
- Extract metadata of scientific documents from various sources. The data is united by a standard interface, allowing data from different sources to be combined.
- Filter, select, deduplicate, and annotate collections of documents.
- Compute and plot general statistics of document sets (e.g., statistics on authors, venues, publication years, etc.)
- Generate and plot various bibliographic networks as an interactive visualization.
- Topic discovery based on natural language processing (NLP) allows automatic discovery of popular topics.
Example
An example notebook is available in notebooks/example.ipynb
and here.
Installation Guide
litstudy is available on PyPI! Full installation guide is available here.
pip install litstudy
Or install the lastest development version directly from GitHub:
pip install git+https://github.com/NLeSC/litstudy
Documentation
Documentation is available here.
Requirements
The package has been tested for Python 3.6. Required packages are available in requirements.txt
.
To access the Scopus
API using litstudy
, you (or your institute) needs a Scopus subscription and you need to request an Elsevier Developer API key (see Elsevier Developers.
License
Apache 2.0. See LICENSE.
Change log
See CHANGELOG.md.
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
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- VOSviewer: Software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks.
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