Questions tagged [databases]
A database is a systematized collection of data that can be accessed immediately and manipulated by a data-processing system for a specific purpose.
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Hugely important database replete with errors
I am about to finish my PhD in bioinformatics. I am trying not to give out too many details, so I won't be very specific.
In the field I am working in, there are two extremely important databases ...
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Where can I find a paper that has been cited multiple times but only ever appears as a citation?
I'm doing an assignment on early warning score (EWS) systems as part of a postgraduate diploma in Medical Technologies.
The progenitor of the system is cited in several papers as Morgan et al.
Morgan, ...
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How can I anonymously store supplemental research data that I submit with papers?
I'm writing a contribution for a double-blind submission system.
Since I would like to supply more data than I could show on a small number of pages, I'm looking for a way to reference supplemental ...
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What if I made a mistake in a paper and now I got a minor revision?
I have received a minor revision after a major revision for a paper.
I discovered that I made a mistake in the calculations. Fixing it will result in changing a lot of the results, but the final ...
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How to get free programmatic access to citations counts for a given paper?
What databases allow free, programmatic access to cited-by counts for papers?
Google Scholar doesn't have an API, and they block crawling attempts.
SCOPUS only seems to allows you to retrieve a ...
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Do all versions of an arXiv paper appear in Google Scholar?
I know that new arXiv papers usually appear in Google Scholar within a few days or weeks. My question is: if someone submits a replacement of his/her arXiv paper, does the new version of the paper ...
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How much can one download from databases before it is too much?
According to this article, a student was arrested for downloading ~4 million articles from an on-line database.
I want to review all existing articles in my interest area before writing my paper, so ...
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Is there a master list of journals? [closed]
I'm looking for a repository of journal data.
More specifically, a listing of every known journal name and various attributes such as ISSN, rankings, peer review, etc. I know Cabell's offers this ...
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Are there available corpora of academic works?
There are many different corpora[1] for the English language:
Google Books ngram database is freely accessible and covers publications indexed in Google Books from the 16th century; words are tagged ...
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Downloadable list of all accredited U.S. colleges? [closed]
I am looking for a downloadable list of all accredited U.S. colleges. I have found many options to search databases, but I am looking for a downloadable list, preferably in spreadsheet format such as ...
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Ethics of using public and illegally obtained databases for academic purposes
I'm on my senior year of college, and my professor and I have decided on an independent study where I will analyze and develop some method(s) for screening valid data sets for the 'selection' phase of ...
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Given a DOI, how can I programmatically obtain all the author affiliations?
Given a DOI, how can I programmatically obtain all the author affiliations? The coding part isn't the issue, but finding a proper database/API is.
E.g. for DOI 10.1186/s12920-019-0598-0, the author ...
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Sharing articles with your department colleagues
Our group of researchers (~15 people) came to an agreement that it would be a good idea to have a database of journal articles that are worth sharing. Our department is becoming more and more focused ...
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How can I find papers that are not sponsored by industry?
Are there any databases or search filters for published peer-reviewed articles, particularly concerning environmental issues, that are neither affiliated with nor funded by corporate interests?
I am ...
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Are there any experiment reproducibility databases?
Quite often when I read a medical research article I wonder whether other researchers tried to reproduce the experiment. I could go through the list of papers that cite the article but I find this ...
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