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Other component objects

Here, we describe other component objects that are used as part of the main graph entities.

AccessRight

Subclass of BestAccessRight, indicates information about rights held in and over the resource and the open Access Route.

openAccessRoute

Type: One of { gold, green, hybrid, bronze } • Cardinality: ONE

Indicates the OpenAccess status. Values are set according to the Unpaywall methodology.

"openAccessRoute": "gold"

AlternateIdentifier

Type used to represent the information associated to persistent identifiers associated to the result that have not been forged by an authority for that pid type. For example we collect metadata from an institutional repository that provides as identifier for the result also the doi.

scheme

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Vocabulary reference.

"scheme": "doi"

value

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Value from the given scheme/vocabulary.

"value": "10.1016/j.respol.2021.104226"

APC

Indicates the money spent to make a book or article available in Open Access. Sources for this information includes the OpenAPC initiative.

currency

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The system of money in which the amount is expressed (Euro, USD, etc).

"currency": "EU"

amount

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The quantity of money.

"amount": "1000"

Author

Represents the result author.

fullname

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Author's full name.

"fullname": "Turunen, Heidi"

name

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Author's given name.

"name": "Heidi"

surname

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Author's family name.

"surname": "Turunen"

rank

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Author's order in the list of authors for the given result.

"rank": 1

pid

Type: AuthorPid • Cardinality: ONE

Persistent identifier associated with this author.

"pid": {
"id": {
"scheme": "orcid",
"value": "0000-0001-7169-1177"
},
"provenance": {
"provenance": "Harvested",
"trust": "0.9"
}
}

AuthorPid

The author's persistent identifier.

id

Type: AuthorPidSchemaValue • Cardinality: ONE

"id": {
"scheme": "orcid",
"value": "0000-0001-7169-1177"
}

provenance

Type: Provenance • Cardinality: ONE

The reason why the pid was associated to the author.

"provenance": {
"provenance": "Inferred by OpenAIRE",
"trust": "0.85"
}

AuthorPidSchemaValue

Type used to represent the scheme and value for the author's pid.

schema

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The author's pid scheme. OpenAIRE currently supports ORCID.

"scheme": "orcid"

value

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The author's pid value in that scheme.

"value": "0000-1111-2222-3333"

BestAccessRight

Indicates the most open access rights *available among the result Instances.

* where the openness is defined by the ordering of the access right terms in the following.

OPEN SOURCE > OPEN > EMBARGO (6MONTHS) > EMBARGO (12MONTHS) > RESTRICTED > CLOSED > UNKNOWN

code

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

COAR access mode code: http://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/documentation/access_rights/.

"code": "c_16ec"

label

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Label for the access mode.

"label": "RESTRICTED"

scheme

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Scheme of reference for access right code. Currently, always set to COAR access rights vocabulary: http://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/documentation/access_rights/.

"scheme": "http://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/documentation/access_rights/"

BipIndicator

The different impact indicators as computed by BIP!.

indicator

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The name of indicator; it can be either one of:

  • influence: it reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
  • influence_alt: it is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
  • popularity: it reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network.
  • popularity_alt: it is an alternative to the "Popularity" indicator, which also reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network.
  • impulse: it reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.

For more details on how these indicators are calculated, please refer here.

"influence": {
"score": "123",
"class": "C2"
}

class

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The impact class assigned based on the indicator score.

To facilitate comprehension, BIP! also offers impact classes for articles, to group together those that have similar impact. The following 5 classes are provided:

  • C1: Top 0.01%
  • C2: Top 0.1%
  • C3: Top 1%
  • C4: Top 10%
  • C5: Bottom 90%
"class": "C2"

score

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The actual indicator score.

"score": "1234"

Container

This field has information about the conference or journal where the result has been presented or published.

name

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Name of the journal or conference.

"name": "Research Policy"

issnPrinted

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The journal printed issn.

"issnPrinted": "0048-7333"

issnOnline

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The journal online issn.

"issnOnline": "1873-7625"

issnLinking

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The journal linking issn.

iss

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The journal issue.

"iss": "5"

sp

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The start page.

"sp": "12"

ep

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The end page.

"ep": "22"

vol

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The journal volume.

"vol": "50"

edition

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The edition of the journal or conference.

conferenceplace

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The place of the conference.

"conferenceplace": "Padua, Italy"

conferencedate

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The date of the conference.

"conferencedate": "2022-09-22"

ControlledField

Generic type used to represent the information described by a scheme and a value in that scheme (i.e. pid).

scheme

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Vocabulary reference.

"scheme": "DOI"

value

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Value from the given scheme/vocabulary.

"value": "10.5281/zenodo.4707307" 

Country

To represent the generic country code and label.

code

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.

"code" : "IT"

label

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The country label.

"label": "Italy"

Funding

Funding information for a project.

funding_stream

Type: FundingStream • Cardinality: ONE

Funding information for the project.

"funding_stream": {
"description": "Horizon 2020 Framework Programme - Research and Innovation action",
"id": "EC::H2020::RIA"
}

jurisdiction

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Geographical jurisdiction (e.g. for European Commission is EU, for Croatian Science Foundation is HR).

"jurisdiction": "EU"

name

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The name of the funder.

"name": "European Commission"

shortName

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The short name of the funder.

"shortName": "EC"

FundingStream

Description of a funding stream.

id

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The identifier of the funding stream.

"id": "EC::H2020::RIA"

description

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Short description of the funding stream.

"description": "Horizon 2020 Framework Programme - Research and Innovation action"

GeoLocation

Represents the geolocation information.

point

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

A point with Latitude and Longitude.

"point": "7.72486 50.1084"

box

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

A specified bounding box defined by two longitudes (min and max) and two latitudes (min and max).

"box": "18.569386 54.468973  18.066832 54.83707"

place

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The name of a specific place.

"place": "Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Southern Germany"

Grant

The money granted to a project.

currency

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The currency of the granted amount (e.g. EUR).

"currency": "EUR"

fundedamount

Type: Number • Cardinality: ONE

The funded amount.

"fundedamount": 1.0E7

totalcost

Type: Number • Cardinality: ONE

The total cost of the project.

"totalcost": 1.0E7

H2020Programme

The H2020 programme funding a project.

code

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The code of the programme.

"code": "H2020-EU.1.4.1.3."

description

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The description of the programme.

"description": "Development, deployment and operation of ICT-based e-infrastructures"

Instance

An instance is one specific materialization or version of the result. For example, you can have one result with three instances as result of deduplication:

  • one is the pre-print
  • one is the post-print
  • one is the published version

Each instance is characterized by the properties that follow.

accessright

Type: AccessRight • Cardinality: ONE

Maps dc:rights, describes the access rights of the web resources relative to this instance.

"accessright": {
"code": "c_abf2",
"label": "OPEN",
"openAccessRoute": "gold",
"scheme": "http://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/documentation/access_rights/"
}

alternateIdentifier

Type: AlternateIdentifier • Cardinality: MANY

All the identifiers associated to the result other than the authoritative ones.

"alternateIdentifier": [
{
"scheme": "doi",
"value": "10.1016/j.respol.2021.104226"
},
...
]

articleprocessingcharge

Type: APC • Cardinality: ONE

The money spent to make this book or article available in Open Access. Source for this information is the OpenAPC initiative.

"articleprocessingcharge": {
"currency": "EUR",
"amount": "1000"
}

license

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The license URL.

"license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"

pid

Type: ResultPid • Cardinality: MANY

The set of persistent identifiers associated to this instance that have been collected from an authority for the pid type (i.e. Crossref/Datacite for doi). See the OpenAIRE entity identifier and PID mapping policy for more information.

"pid": [
{
"scheme": "pmc",
"value": "PMC8024784"
},
...
]

publicationdate

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The publication date of the research product.

"publicationdate": "2009-02-12"

refereed

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Describes if this instance has been peer-reviewed or not. Allowed values are peerReviewed, nonPeerReviewed, UNKNOWN (as defined in https://api.openaire.eu/vocabularies/dnet:review_levels). For example:

based on guidelines covers the vocabularies

"refereed": "UNKNOWN"

type

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The specific sub-type of this instance (see https://api.openaire.eu/vocabularies/dnet:result_typologies following the links)

"type": "Article"

url

Type: String • Cardinality: MANY

URLs to the instance. They may link to the actual full-text or to the landing page at the hosting source.

"url": [
"https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/folio/article/view/4296",
...
]

Indicator

These are indicators computed for a specific OpenAIRE result.

Each Indicator object is composed of the following properties:

bipIndicators

Type: BipIndicator • Cardinality: MANY

These impact-based indicators, provided by BIP!, estimate the impact of a result.

For details about their calculation, please refer here.

"bipIndicators": [
{
"indicator": "influence",
"score": "123",
"class": "C2"
},
{
"indicator": "influence_alt",
"score": "456",
"class": "C3"
},
{
"indicator": "popularity",
"score": "234",
"class": "C1"
},
{
"indicator": "popularity_alt",
"score": "345",
"class": "C5"
},
{
"indicator": "impulse",
"score": "987",
"class": "C3"
}
]

usageCounts

Type: UsageCounts • Cardinality: ONE

These measures, computed by the UsageCounts Service, are based on usage statistics.

Please refer here for more details.

"usageCounts":{
"downloads": "10",
"views": "20"
}

Language

Represents information for the language of the result

code

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Alpha-3/ISO 639-2 code of the language. Values controlled by the dnet:languages vocabulary.

"code": "eng"

label

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Language label in English.

"label": "English"

OrganizationPid

The schema and value for identifiers of the organization.

scheme

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Vocabulary reference (i.e. isni).

"scheme" : "GRID"

value

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Value from the given scheme/vocabulary (i.e. 0000000090326370).

"value" : "grid.7119.e"

Provenance

Indicates the process that produced (or provided) the information, and the trust associated to the information.

provenance

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Provenance term from the vocabulary dnet:provenanceActions.

"provenance": "Harvested"

trust

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Trust, expressed as a number in the range [0-1].

"trust": "0.9"

ResultCountry

It is for the country associated to the result. It is a subclass of Country and extends it with provenance information.

provenance

Type: Provenance • Cardinality: ONE

Indicates the reason why this country is associated to this result.

"provenance": {
"provenance": "inferred by OpenAIRE",
"trust": "0.85"
}

ResultPid

Type used to represent the information associated to persistent identifiers for the result that have been forged by an authority for that pid type.

scheme

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The scheme of the persistent identifier for the result (i.e. doi). If the pid is here it means the information for the pid has been collected from an authority for that pid type (i.e. Crossref/Datacite for doi). The set of authoritative pid is: doi when collected from Crossref or Datacite, pmid when collected from EuroPubmed, arxiv when collected from arXiv, handle from the repositories.

"scheme": "doi"

value

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The value expressed in the scheme (i.e. 10.1000/182).

"value": "10.21511/bbs.13(3).2018.13"

Subject

Represents keywords associated to the result.

subject

Type: SubjectSchemeValue • Cardinality: ONE

Contains the subject term: subject type (keyword, MeSH, etc) and the subject term (medicine, chemistry, etc.).

"subject": {
"scheme": "keyword",
"value": "SVOC"
}

provenance

Type: Provenance • Cardinality: ONE

Contains provenance information for the subject term.

"provenance": {
"provenance": "Harvested",
"trust": "0.9"
}

SubjectSchemeValue

Subject classification against a vocabulary

scheme

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

OpenAIRE subject classification scheme (https://api.openaire.eu/vocabularies/dnet:subject_classification_typologies).

"scheme" : "keyword"

value

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The value for the subject in the selected scheme. When the scheme is 'keyword', it means that the subject is free-text (i.e. not a term from a controlled vocabulary).

"value" : "pyrolysis-oil"

UsageCounts

The usage counts indicator computed for this result.

views

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The number of views for this result.

"views": "10"

downloads

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The number of downloads for this result.

"downloads": "5"