nodealm

nodeALM

Node wrapper for the PLOS ALM API

A Node port of Cameron Neylon's pyalm library. A wrapper for the Public Library of Science (PLOS) Article Level Metrics (ALM) API.

var Alm = require('nodealm');
 
var alm = new Alm('10.1371/journal.pbio.1000242');
 
alm.on('success', function(result) {
    console.log('DOI:', result.doi); // Article's DOI
    console.log('Title: ', result.title); // Article's title
    console.log('URL: ', result.url); // Article's URL
 
    console.log('Views: ', result.views); // Article's total views
    console.log('Shares: ', result.shares); // Article's total shares
    console.log('Bookmarks: ', result.bookmarks); // Article's total bookmarks
    console.log('Citations: ', result.citations); // Article's total citations
});
 
alm.fetch();

Installation

npm install nodealm

Summary level information - Example response

// DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0036240
result = {
    doi: '10.1371/journal.pone.0036240',
    title: 'How Academic Biologists and Physicists View Science Outreach',
    url: 'http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0036240',
 
    mendeley: '88bfe7f0-9cb4-11e1-ac31-0024e8453de6', // Mendeley article id
    pmid: '22590526', // PubMed id
    pmcid: '3348938', // PubMed Central id
 
    publication_date: '2012-05-09T07:00:00Z',
    update_date: '2014-01-11T14:20:30Z',
 
    views: 12987,
    shares: 276,
    bookmarks: 38,
    citations: 3,
    ...,
}

More detailed source information - Example response

The response also returns an array of ALM data sources with more detailed information.

// DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0036240
result = {
    ...,
    sources: {
        twitter: {
            name: 'twitter',
            display_name: 'Twitter',
            events_url: null,
            metrics: {
                pdf: null,
                html: null,
                shares: null,
                groups: null,
                comments: 136,
                likes: null,
                citations: null,
                total: 136
            }
        },
        ...,
    }
}

Advanced usage

Multiple articles can be requested by providing and array of DOIs

var alm = new Alm(['10.1371/journal.pbio.1000242', '10.1371/journal.pone.0035869']);

Additional options are provided through the options object

var options = {
    info: 'history',
    days: 30
};
 
alm.getAlm('10.1371/journal.pbio.1000242', options, callback);

Available options

info

Controls the amount of detail provided in the response

Value	Description
summary	Only article metadata (DOI, title, PubMed IDs) and summary metrics
detail	All historical data and all raw data sent by the source
event	All raw data provided by the source
history	All historical data, includes metrics by day, month and year

source

Filter the list of sources returned in response. A list of sources is available here.

days

Shows metrics after a given time in days of publication. So, for example, if set to 30, the metrics in the response will be calculated at the time 30 days after the article was published.

months

Similar to the days option, but calculates using months instead of days.

year

Similar to the days and months options but calculates the metrics at the end of the given year. For example, if set to 2012 the metrics will be calculated up to the end of 2012.

Command line usage

(Please note, this feature isn't well fleshed out yet). To use with the command line, use the command

node cli.js DOI_HERE

To request multiple DOIs, provide a comma-separated list of DOIs.

Running tests

Tests are provided with mocha. Run the tests with

npm test

(Please note that some tests will hit the API, and so will take longer to complete. This may change if/when I start mocking the API.)

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2014 Alasdair Smith

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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