Show information about the journal

[tobiasdiez]

In the entry editor, there should be a button next to the journal field that displays a bunch of information about the journal in a PopOver. For example similar to

(from eigenfactor)

A few possible datasources are discussed here: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3/where-can-i-find-the-impact-factor-for-a-given-journal (related: https://github.com/ikashnitsky/sjrdata)

[dimitra-karadima]

@tobiasdiez I want to tackle this issue! Can you give more specific details on where the relevant code is in order to add the button.
I have also googled on how can you search Google Programmatically and based on the link: http://www.eigenfactor.org/projects/journalRank/rankings.php?bsearch=COMMUNICATIONS+IN+MATHEMATICAL+PHYSICS&searchby=journal&orderby=eigenfactor
I thought I'd have just the "COMMUNICATIONS+IN+MATHEMATICAL+PHYSICS" as a variable in order to search every time for the specific journal. What do you think about it? I haven't done anything similar before so if you have a better idea, it would be much appreciated!

[tobiasdiez]

Thanks for your interest @dimitra-karadima! I had a quick look and it looks like none of the above sources have a proper API that would give us easy access to the data. Thus, it seems this will be a bigger project.

I would propose the following:

• Use https://www.scimagojr.com/ as they allow to download their data
• Create a small python script that downloads the data, similar to https://github.com/ikashnitsky/sjrdata/blob/master/dev/sjr-get-all-data.R
• Combine the data from different years to json (in the same python script), similar to https://github.com/ikashnitsky/sjrdata/blob/master/dev/sjr-join-all-data.R
• Load this json file in JabRef and show the information in nice graphs as e.g. in https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=28773&tip=sid&clean=0

What do you think?

[dimitra-karadima]

@tobiasdiez very helpful input! But I don't think I can handle it right now. I am not really keen on python scripts, json files let alone combining them even though you have done a great work finding all the files needed! It is going to take me much more time than I thought and right now I am kinda busy. So I am going to find a smaller issue and maybe come back to this when I find some extra time if no one else has tackled it till then! And again I am really sorry for dropping the issue.

[tobiasdiez]

That is very understandable. I wasn't aware of how much work this is until I wrote down what needs to be done.

But we do have a few issues that should be smaller tasks. For example, the ones tagged with good-first-issue and the ones concerning fetcher are usual also pretty self-contained. Looking forward to your next PR!

[ilippert]

Generally, it might be of interest to query whether journals are listed as open access journals.
https://doaj.org/api/v1/docs

[koobs]

CrossRef has a Journals resource that might be handy.

CrossRef API Documentation: Resources

Example API Calls:

• Journal information via ISSN: https://api.crossref.org/journals/2158-5571
• Journal Works via ISSN: https://api.crossref.org/journals/0276-1459/works
• Journal Query: https://api.crossref.org/journals?query=Nature%20Biomedical%20Engineering (does not support field queries like Works resource (ask upstream to add it!))

[KallePettersson]

Hi we are a group of five university students (@davyie, @osclind, @LukasGutenberg and @martinfalke) who would like to work on this issue as part of the course DD2480 Software Engineering Fundamentals at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Is there anything in particular we should know about?

[tobiasdiez]

Cool, thanks for your interest! The approach outlined in #6189 (comment) is still pretty much up-to-date. Do you have any questions concerning this? (btw: in place of python you could have course also use java to download and pre-format the journal info if you prefer that)

Edit: It would be also nice if the info could be shown directly in the entry editor as a popover instead of a new dialog, using http://fxexperience.com/controlsfx/features/#popover.