Scholia

Scholia is a python package and webapp for interaction with scholarly information in Wikidata.

Webapp

As a webapp it currently runs from Wikimedia Tool Labs, a facility provided by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is accessible from

https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/

The webapp displays the scholarly profile for individual researchers, for instance the scholarly profile for psychologist Uta Frith is accessible from

https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/author/Q8219

The information displayed on the page is only what is available in Wikidata.

Script

It is possible to use methods of the scholia package as a script:

$ python -m scholia.query twitter-to-q fnielsen
Q20980928

Contributing

See file CONTRIBUTING.rst for technical details how to improve Scholia.

Reference

• Finn Årup Nielsen, Daniel Mietchen, Egon Willighagen, "Scholia and scientometrics with Wikidata", Joint Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Scientometrics and 1st International Workshop on Enabling Decentralised Scholarly Communication, 2017. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1878/article-03.pdf
• Finn Årup Nielsen, Daniel Mietchen, Egon Willighagen, "Scholia, Scientometrics and Wikidata", The Semantic Web: ESWC 2017 Satellite Events, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70407-4_36. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-70407-4_36.pdf