This report takes a list of PMIDs of EBI-authored publications and extracts the countries from author affiliations on the publications in order to look at EBI-author collaboration. Additional information regarding article impact and open access status is also included.
PMIDs should be provided as a single .CSV file with one column containing a heading.
To extract the countries from the affiliations, a list of countries along with their associated continents and country codes is used. US state names are also included, as US-authors routinely do not add ‘USA’ or ‘United States’ etc. in the affiliation.
To determine which affiliations belong to EBI authors (and therefore not a collaborating country), a list of EBI name variations is imported.
By querying the Europe PMC Articles API, we can retrieve all affiliations for these articles. Of the 289 supplied, 289 (100%) are available in Europe PMC.
We can then extract the country names from the affiliations, and also check whether or not the affiliation corresponds to an EBI affiliation.
The results are exported to a .CSV file (ebi_countries.csv).
From the results, we can count how many articles contain one or more affiliations from a particular country (that isn’t an EBI affiliation). If there are multiple affiliations from a country, these are counted as a single collaboration with that country.
As plotted on an interactive world map:
From the articles where DOIs are available, we can look at the Altmetric scores for the EBI-authored papers. The table below shows for each article the overall score, along with the percentile this score lies in comparing to articles published 6 weeks before or after. Also shown are the total number of Tweeters.
The graph below shows the distribution of article percentiles. Of the 276 articles with Altmetric scores, 194 (70%) are ranked in the top quarter.
The following DOIs could not be found via the Altmetric API:
Based on the information in the Unpaywall database, we can determine the open access status of EBI articles.
Of the 289 articles found in Unpaywall, 270 (93%) are open access.
Using the Europe PMC API we can see the most common funders associated with EBI articles. If an article received multiple grants from a particular funder, this is only counted once.
Of the 289 PMIDs in Europe PMC, 220 have associated funding. The table below shows the most common funders of EBI-authored articles.