The SocioRePEc.org research information system provides free added-value services for RePEc users, including a new tool to annotate RePEc papers in PDF. SocioRePEc also gives enrichment facilities for RePEc authors and some additional daily updated statistics.
Compare with other RePEc services like IDEAS, etc., SocioRePEc currently supports some new use cases:
- You can select interesting fragments within PDF papers and store them with your comments as your micro research outputs. You can keep them for your private use only. If you share them publicly, readers of the papers will see them as annotations to papers’ text. See more in the instructions.
Other RePEc services can freely take the public annotation data from SocioRePEc.
We continue further development of this tool to enable fragmentation and re-use of research outputs in PDF in new ways [1]. - The enrichment facilities allow you to create research relationships between the fragments of papers, annotations, etc. See instruction.We provide an initial taxonomy of the research relationships [2] and continue its development.
- The new statistical service gives daily updated pictures of the “production”, the “popularity” and the “usage” activities behind changes of the RePEc data. See more here.
In particular, an author can see at the personal profile page (example) their the most popular papers for the specified period of time (example), different classes of scientific relationships with their papers (example), and some other statistics.
Research organisations, for instance, can see at the profile page (example) their the most popular papers by collections (example) or by researchers from its staff (example), scientific relationships, and some other statistics, e.g. with total numbers of their papers by collections and by researchers, etc.We are developing this statistical service to be a “signalling system” for RePEc users [3].
By developing SocioRePEc, the SocioRePEc team proposes to the RePEc community a testbed for experiments with new forms of re-using research papers, with ability to express research relationships between papers, with new ways for scholarly communication [1,2] and with the statistical signalling system [3].
We believe this SocioRePEc approach and technology can bring a new level of transparency in research and can lead to improvements in the scientific standards of rigour and integrity.
The SocioRePEc team invites individuals and organisations to collaboration.
At the moment the project has no funding. We are looking for funding sources and/or a cooperation with other projects. If you can help, please let me know at sparinov@gmail.com.
Please consider making a donation. If you like to be a sponsor of this project, please let us know at admin@sociorepec.org.
[1] SocioRePEc CRIS with an interactive mode of the research outputs usage, (direct link to PDF)
[2] Scholarly Communication in a Semantically Enrichable Research Information System with Embedded Taxonomy of Scientific Relationships, http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-24543-0_7, (direct link to PDF)
[3] Semantic Linkages in Research Information Systems as a New Data Source for Scientometric Studies, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-013-1108-3, (direct link to PDF)
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