wostools 2.0.3

Translates isi web of knowledge files into python objects.

Python WoS tools

Translates ISI Web of Knowledge files into python objects.

Quickstart

Install the library by:

$ pip install wostools

Say you want to grab the title of all the articles in an ISI file, you can grab this example file.

>>> from wostools import CachedCollection
>>> collection = CachedCollection.from_filenames('docs/examples/bit-pattern-savedrecs.txt')
>>> for article in collection:
...     print(article.title)
In situ grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering study of solvent vapor annealing in lamellae-forming block copolymer thin films: Trade-off of defects in deswelling
Structural control of ultra-fine CoPt nanodot arrays via electrodeposition process
Porphyrin-based Pt/Pd-containing metallopolymers: Synthesis, characterization, optical property and potential application in bioimaging
Syntheses and Controllable Self-Assembly of Luminescence Platinum(II) Plane-Coil Diblock Copolymers
# ...

Never fear wostools cli is here. To help you do some common tasks right from your terminal.

$ wostools --help
$ # To extract all the properties in a json file
$ wostools to-json docs/examples/bit-pattern-savedrecs.txt --output=document.json

Features

• Free software: MIT license
• Just parses an ISI Web of Knowledge file and produces a native python object.
• Through the CollectionLazy object it can do this using the minimum amount of memory it can possibly do.
• It has a cli to extract documents and citation pairs for you :smile:

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

History

2.0.3 (2020-08-09)

• Add issue to the articles top level.

2.0.2 (2020-08-09)

• Fix bug with first author merging articles.
• Remove instances where we inherit from object.

2.0.1 (2020-08-09)

• Fix error with wos files that have an invisible character before the field key.

2.0.0 (2020-08-08)

• Make the article class more concrete
• Make collections iterable
• Add cached and lazy collections for different use cases

0.2.0 (2018-08-12)

• Add support for all WOS fields.
• Add graph building support.
• Add a little cli for common tasks.

0.1.1 (2018-05-10)

• First release on PyPI.