On Apr 12, 2019, at 9:55 AM, Kevin Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Has anybody here used the NSF (National Science Foundation) API to identify >> citations coming from a grant? >> The NSF has a simple API for querying grants. See --> >> https://www.research.gov/common/webapi/awardapisearch-v1.htm Based on what I >> read, no citation data is associated with awards. In other words, after an >> award has been granted, list the publications associated with it. Am I >> missing something? > > While I have not used the NSF API, its documentation mentions > "publicationResearch" and "publicationConference". These might give you the > citations you're looking for.j I missed this. Thank you for bringing it to may attention. "Many eyes make bugs shallow." > You might also try searching Google Scholar and other literature databases > for the grant number to see where it's mentioned in the text of an article. > Publishers are increasingly storing such data in article metadata as well, so > in the long run, I expect this kind of searching on publications will become > easier. Yes, this approach is something that has also been brought to my attention. -- Eric Morgan
