PLOS API

The Search API is a great tool to find interesting PLoS articles, and the ALM API can then collect metrics about these articles. Using the R statistical programming language is one of the easiest ways to look at these metrics. Below are a few example visualizations, the source code to all of them can be found in the plosOpenR Github repository.

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We are excited to announce the upcoming release of version 2.0 of the PLoS Article Level Metrics application on July 31. Version 2.0 includes many changes under the hood, and now uses Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3.2. The biggest improvements are in how the application processes requests to external services in the background. As with the ALM 1.x application, we will make the source code available at https://github.com/articlemetrics/alm.

The release of ALM 2.0 also includes a few changes to the API, and starting July 31, requests to the PLoS ALM API at alm.plos.org have to use the new API format. We have documented the changes in PLoS ALM 2.0 API Changes and at https://github.com/articlemetrics/alm/wiki/API. Please ask any questions you might have in the PLoS API Developers Google Group at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/plos-api-developers.

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PLoS and Mendeley, the popular reference manager and academic social network, teamed up to create a Binary Battle contest to build the best apps that make science more open using PLoS and/or Mendeley’s APIs (Application Programming Interface).  For more information about the contest, see the Binary Battle website.

Grand prize

openSNP
Share your personal genome from 23andMe or deCODEme to find the latest relevant research and let scientists discover new genetic associations. “The APIs of Mendeley and PLoS and all submissions in the Binary Battle have shown how creative people can re-use the data APIs in many ways.” Bastian Greshake at openSNP.

Runner up

PaperCritic
Post-publication peer review in an open environment. Rate papers, write critical reviews or read those from others.

Extra prize
rOpenSci

R-based tools to facilitate Open Science; including R packages for both Mendeley and PLoS.

Finalists

Collabgraph

Visualize who is collaborating in your research field with data from your Mendeley library or BibTeX file.
Collabgraph

Droideley
Read your Mendeley library on the go with this client for Android mobiles.
Droideley

KLEENK

Make “smart” connections between articles, books and any other research object and learn from connections made by other researchers.
KLEENK

PLoS Impact Explorer
See which research is getting the most buzz online from news outlets, blogs, Twitter and elsewhere, all in one place.
PLoS Impact Explorer

ReaderMeter
Research impact is now crowd sourced. Future impact of research is estimated using real-time bookmarking aggregated from Mendeley.
ReaderMeter

ScienceCard
Discover all of the citations, bookmarks and other points of impact for all of your publications or personal library.
ScienceCard

TiNYARM
Share and keep track of what you read on your mobile device then watch the leader board to see who is on top.
TiNYARM

Total-Impact
Get a broad picture of the true impact of what you’re reading with data aggregated from many sources.
Total-Impact

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