Software

Open-Source Software Tools

The following open-source software tools are designed to facilitate research on knowledge creation, dissemination, and policy in the life sciences with financial support from the National Science Foundation (Awards SBE-0738142 and SBE-1063907).

• PubHarvester: An open-source software tool designed to retrieve scientific publications data from MEDLINE.

• SC/Gen and Second Degree Report: Two open-source software tools to create the two-degree, egocentric coauthorship network for a set of "superstar" scientists.

• Scientific Distance: An open-source software tool designed to calculate distance between any pair of scientists in "ideas space" based on the overlap of the MeSH keywords in their publications.

• FindRelated: An open-source software tool designed to harvest efficiently the set of articles returned by the PubMed Related Citation algorithm, for any given set of PubMed identifiers (pmid’s) provided as an input.