Group Comparison

From LiquidPubWiki

Group comparison tool is currently available at [1]

Main Features

Group creation

There are 3 ways to create groups.

1. A group can be created using the form interface by giving the group name and selecting group members of the list.
2. The tool can also import group information from XML and Excel files. (See format below)
3. 

   

   Screenshot of multiple groups creation form
   Multiple groups can be automatically created using the form interface by selecting the filters and grouping values. For example, to create a group for each department in the University of Trento, the university filter is set to "University of Trento" and the grouping is set to "department".

XML file format

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<group>
    <features>
        <name>Group name</name>
        <description>Group description</description>
    </features>
    <element>
        <firstName>fabio</firstName>
        <middleName></middleName>
        <lastName>casati</lastName>
    </element>
    <element>
        <firstName>maurizio</firstName>
        <middleName></middleName>
        <lastName>marchese</lastName>
    </element>
</group>

Excel file format

Group comparison

Groups can be compared by creating new comparison and selecting the desired groups. The result of the comparison is saved and can be retrieved via the user interface or REST (http://demo.liquidpub.org/LPComparison-war/servlet/showgrpcomparison/[id])

This tool uses the ResEval service to compute the following metrics for each group in a comparison:

1. Number of publications
2. Number of citations
3. Average number of citations per publication
4. Signal to noise ratio
5. H-index
6. G-index
7. Average H-index
8. Average G-index

Database Schema

Database scripts for additional tables and function can be found in the svn: https://dev.liquidpub.org/svn/liquidpub/comparison/oracle

The latest database schema is also in the svn: https://dev.liquidpub.org/svn/liquidpub/comparison/group%20comparison%20schema.png

NOTE, that to deploy Michele's version to LP server, you need to modify db username and password in [2] and [3]. May be in future versions Michele will change datasource name to be the same as ours