supporting multiple IDs in TotalImpact

[Aliaksandr Birukou]

Hello Jason, Heather, all,

I am testing how it is possible to aggregate statistics on the same publication via its multiple IDs. For instance, this paper of mine has DOI, mendeleyID and a URL: http://total-impact.org/collection/LTtNmS

When I retrieve stats with TotalImpact I see that e.g., the number of CiteULike bookmarks actually refers to the same paper, no matter if I use DOI or mendeleyID, while for the number of readers on Mendeley, it is different. Also, later topsy should tell that for the URL there is 1 tweet, and I suppose for DOI and mendeley ID it'll still show 0 tweets.

My question is, did you have any plans of supporting multiple IDs and what you thought about this?

My impression was that if I know that my pub has multiple IDs, I'd like to provide all of them (and group?) and then get an aggregate stats. For the aggregate I'd need to know if I should sum up metric values for various IDs or do not sum up  (does it depend on metric, or, rather, the way it is obtained via some API?)  and show aggregate stats.

Do you think it could be useful for TI API to make it possible to pass multiple IDs and get overall stats? Is there such functionality? Can we (I and Eugene) implement it or it is better to keep such things inside PeerEvaluation?

Cheers,

Alex

[aalam wassef]

Hey All, 

Thanks Alex for this. 

Wanted to pop in to give you all an idea of Peer Evaluation's PR campaign.

We're aiming at next wednesday, Feb 29th.

I'm very excited about what we've done so far, implementing TI and look forward to all the feedback and suggestions we'll get. One of the things that come to my mind is to make sure that TI isn't exclusively DOI driven, but I'm sure that's on everyone's mind so I'm not really worried!

Hope all of you are well,

Best,

Aalam

[Jason Priem]

Absolutely,multiple ID support is key and will be in the next version dropping in may.

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