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Sep 9, 2020 · WorldCat Identities. WorldCat Identities is an experimental project that provides library holdings data for personal, corporate, or subject-based identities. While it is not the only source of such data, it is especially useful for contributing to gap projects for three reasons.
- Selecting Our Sample of Researchers
- WorldCat Identities
- Retrieving Information from WorldCat Identities
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To apply WI to a set of researchers who specialize in Scientometrics, we selected a sample of authors included in the “Scholar Mirrors” portalFootnote 3—which gathers profiles of researchers in Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Informetrics, Webometrics, and Altmetrics on platforms like Google Scholar or ResearchGate. The “Scholar Mirrors” was created...
The WI author profile provides information about an author’s bibliographic production. It includes the following four indicators (Fig. 1)scholar-mirrors.infoec3.es/layout. 1. Works: Number of different works indexed in WorldCat. 2. Publications: Total number of works indexed in WorldCat, including separate book editions. 3. Languages: Number of dif...
WorldCat Identity information can be retrieved directly from the interface or from the API (Applications Programming Interface). First, we used the WI APIFootnote 5 to automatically search for each author by name, select the most relevant personal identity result, and retrieve all profile information. However, WI has a disambiguation issue that mea...
A library count indicator is difficult to create because complete lists of holdings are needed in order to identify duplicates. The holdings indicator includes duplicate libraries when the same library holds multiple publications and, for any given author, books they have authored or co-authored, edited or contributed to (e.g., as a chapter author)...
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- 2021
Feb 29, 2024 · Overview. WorldCat Entities allows users to search, view, and download WorldCat Entities and their associated information. Browse through entity results and explore how each entity links to other WorldCat Entities, external vocabularies, and authority files for further context.
The WorldCat Identities Network is no longer available. The WorldCat Identities API provided up to 10 Related Identities for each Identity. These Related Identities were then displayed as a visual network map that allowed users to easily jump from Identity Network to Identity Network by clicking the Identity name on the map.
