Scientific Distance Report

Description

The Scientific Distance Report project consists of a software tool that works with the Publication Harvester (a software tool that downloads publications from PubMed). The Scientific Distance Report program searches the publications downloaded by the Publication Harvester, comparing pairs of scientists to find the degree by which their publications overlap.

The Publication Harvester and Scientific Distance Report software runs on Windows Vista and XP. It was written in C#, and requires .NET Framework 3.0.

Documentation

The user manual describes installation and use of the Scientific Distance Report software. (It's also available as a PDF).

The software requirements specification that was used used to develop and maintain the Scientific Disance Report program can be found here.

Download

Software downloads:

Quick start:

  1. You'll need to start with one or two databases created by the Publication Harvester, so you'll need to follow its installation instructions first.
  2. Download the latest version of the Scientific Distance Report zip file.
  3. Extract the executable from the file and run it.

The following sample files may be helpful:

Screenshot

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License

This software is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Contact Information

The Scientific Distance Report, Publication Harvester and SC/Gen projects are maintained by Andrew Stellman of Stellman & Greene Consulting. If you have questions, comments, patches, or bug reports, please contact pubharvester@stellman-greene.com.

Revision history

We gratefully acknowledgement is given to the financial support of the National Science Foundation (Award SBE-0738142).