HALscripts

Several python3 scripts to extract data from HAL (the French open archive). All scripts are released without any warranty !

It uses the requests to haltools to get the data (essentially lists of publications).

The necessary modules are :

• numpy http://www.numpy.org/
• matplotlib https://matplotlib.org/index.html
• urllib
• beautiful soup https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/
• fuzzywuzzy https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy

doublons_hal_check.py

This script will try to identify the doubles in a list of references

Usage

1- edit the doublons_hal_check.py file to change the search parameters used to get the reference list, i.e. the first and last year of publication, as well as the research structure number. Additional parameters should work (not tested)

2- run the following line in a terminal : python doublons_hal_check.py

3- the result of the analysis is shown in the terminal

lab_connections.py

This script will plot the "connections" (common publications) between different research structures

Usage

1- edit the lab_connections.py file to include the research structures of interest in the dictionnary.

2- run the following line in a terminal : python lab_connections.py

3- the plot should be displayed in a new window