poldham/kenlitr

An R package containing the scientific literature for Kenya (archived) # Kenlit This repository compiles open access data on scientific publications from Kenya. The aim of Kenlit is to compile scientific publications about Kenya available in open access form to assist policy makers, researchers and the wider community with accessing research about Kenya. To view the data in interactive form please visit the Tableau public web page. Kenlit has been developed in the context of a wider collaboration with the National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI) in Kenya and the German Technical Cooperation (GIZ) focusing on biodiversity related research. Kenlit is in an early stage of development and the data should not be regarded as complete. For further information please see the known issues below. Kenlit is available for R as the `kenlitr` package. Due to its size it is not on CRAN but can be installed from github. ```r devtools::install_github("poldham/kenlitr") ``` To download the data in this repository as a single 170MB zip file containing all the csv files click here. ## Data Sources Kenlit data is presently drawn from two sources. These form distinct datasets that are linked by a common identifier (paperid). The sources are: 1. Microsoft Academic Graph (January 2019 Release) which is provided under an Open Data Commons Attribution Licence (ODC-By) v. 1.0. Visit Microsoft Academic Graph to learn more and view the documentation. 2. The Lens. The Lens is an open access database for scientific and patent literature. The Lens has recently expanded coverage of the scientific literature to include Crossref, PubMed, Microsoft Academic Graph, and CORE (for open access full text articles). Data from MAG is used to identify research outputs from organisations in Kenya based on affiliationids for Kenya that match to ids in the Global Research Identifier Database (GRID). Data from the Lens (which aggregates from a range of sources) is used to identify other scientific publications about Kenya. At present `Kenlit` c …