Awesome Scisci

A curated list of awesome Science of science resources, libraries and platforms.

Science of Science is an emerging interdisciplinary field that relies on big data to unveil the reproducible patterns that govern individual scientific careers and the workings of science.

Conferences, Programmes and Events

• NetSci - International School and Conference on Network Science
• ISSI - The International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
• IC2S2 - International Conference on Computational Social Science
• KDD(Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) - Data-Driven Science Of Science
• Science4cast - A Machine Learning Challenge in the Science of Science
• ASIS&T - The Association for Information Science and Technology
• STI - International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators
• twt - Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in Science and Technology

Databases

Publications

• MAG(Microsoft Academic Graph)
• WoS(Web of Science)
• APS(American Phisical Society)
• PubMed
• SciSciNet - A large-scale open data lake for the science of science research.
• Dimensions

Researchers

• OpenAlex - An open and comprehensive catalog of scholarly papers, authors, institutions, and more.
• ORCID - alphanumeric code to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication. 14,727,479 live accounts as of 2 August 2022
• Academic Tree - a single, interdisciplinary academic genealogy. 843,000 people and 812,200 connections between them as of 29 July 2023
• Math genealogy - genealogy in mathematics. 293,711 records as of 29 July 2023
• ProQuest
• Open Syllabus

Reviews

• OpenReview - One of the biggest open review platform. The external link leads you to example dataset of Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track (Round 1)
• Publons -
• PeerJ
• Crossref
• eLife

Libraries, Softwares

• scisci - Semantic and Relational Spaces in Science of Science: Deep Learning Models for Article Vectorisation
• SciSciNet - A large-scale open data lake for the science of science research. Paper
• pySciSci - An unified interface to analyze several of the most common Bibliometric DataBases used in the Science of Science Paper
• Sci2 Tool

Books, Slides and Review papers

• The science of science (Dashung Wang et al. 2021)
• Science of science (Santo Fortunato et al. 2018)
• Data, measurement and empirical methods in the science of science ()
• S4 Lectures - Science of Science Summer School website

Journals

• American Documentation
• Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
• ASLIB Proceedings
• Information Processing and Management
• Information Scientist
• Information Storage and Retrieval
• Journal of Documentation
• Journal of Information Science
• Journal of Informetrics
• Journal of the American Society for Information Science
• Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
• Research Evaluation
• Research Policy
• Scientometrics
• Quantitative Science Studies
• Nature
• Nature Human Behavior
• Nature Communications
• Science
• Science Advance
• ProNAS

Researchers

• Mike Thelwall
• Nees Jan van Eck
• Loet Leydesdorff
• Dashun Wang
• James Evans
• Lutz Bornmann
• Misha Teplitskiy
• Raf Guns
• A.F.J. van Raan
• Ismael Rafols
• Vincent Lariviere
• Brian Uzzi
• Cassidy R. Sugimoto
• Ludo Waltman
• Santo Fortunato
• Rodrigo Costas
• Roberto Sinatra