Expanding ReCiter Publication Manager: A LYRASIS Catalyst Fund-Supported Project

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2023-03

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LYRASIS; Weill Cornell Medicine; Texas A&M University

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In 2022, Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) and Texas A&M University were awarded a grant from LYRASIS’ Catalyst Fund to develop open-source tools that use faculty data to generate research intelligence and reports. WCM's project aimed to improve the capabilities of its publication management tool, ReCiter Publication Manager. As part of this initiative, WCM enhanced the application to allow users to generate publication lists based on nine distinct criteria, incorporating author and article filters as well as a variety of bibliometric reports. In March 2023, Publication Manager successfully completed a beta test involving a group of faculty and departmental users at WCM. Consequently, the institution will launch the application for production in April. Publication Manager was designed to benefit other institutions, and the open-source code for the application can be downloaded from: https://github.com/wcmc-its/ReCiter-Publication-Manager.

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Academic institutions often need to analyze and report on publications authored by their scholars. However, many institutions do not have access to user-friendly, open-source tools to assist them in fulfilling these requirements. To address this issue, WCM developed an open-source system called ReCiter, which enables institutions to suggest and store publication lists for their scholars. Despite its usefulness, the tool initially lacked a robust application for reporting on the stored data. In 2019, an alpha version of ReCiter Publication Manager was released to address this limitation. Regrettably, this early version had several shortcomings, most notably its absence of reporting functions and an intuitive web interface, which would allow non-technical users to generate reports easily. The LYRASIS Catalyst Fund is an award program that supports innovative projects advancing the mission and reach of LYRASIS member organizations. Initiated by the LYRASIS Leaders Circle, the Fund encourages opportunities to explore, test, refine, and collaborate on innovations with potential for community-wide impact. Given the widespread need for user friendly reporting tools among LYRASIS member organizations, extending Publication Manager emerged as an excellent candidate for the Fund. With the grant from LYRASIS, WCM proposed to (1) update ReCiter Publication Manager to enable the output of publication lists based on nine criteria, including author filters (author name, organizational affiliation, institutional affiliation, person type, rank/position) and article filters (date, publication type, journal, journal rank); and (2) outline a set of bibliometric reports, consistent with best practices, to be incorporated in a future version of Publication Manager.

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Albert PJ; Jangari M; Dutta S; Gabeskiria J; Mansour M; Lamont P; Wheeler T. “Expanding ReCiter Publication Manager: A LYRASIS Catalyst Fund Supported Project.” 3/2023, 1-8. DOI:10.48609/c36a-3y91

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12669/118

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Catalyst Fund Projects