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User stories

As a university administrator, I want to compare scientometrics of my university with another university so that I can get an overview of my university's relative performance for reporting.

Scholia has means to compare several universities on the same page, e.g., the URL https://scholia.toolforge.org/organizations/Q1269766,Q193196 shows the Technical University of Denmark together with University College London.

It is important to note the incompleteness of information in Wikidata, so Scholia will likely show far from the complete scientometrics of a university.

As a researcher, I want to know which organizations are near a specific location and which work with a specific topic, e.g., Wikipedia researchers near or in Tübingen or machine learning researchers in or around Copenhagen.

A subaspect of the "location" aspect can zoom in on a specific topic, e.g., Wikipedia researcher and Tübingen with https://scholia.toolforge.org/location/Q3806/topic/Q52 and machine learning and Copenhagen with https://scholia.toolforge.org/location/Q1748/topic/Q2539

You are to review research applications from Finland about machine learning and related research fields. You are based outside Finland and would like to get an overview of Finnish researchers and research organizations in that research area, their works as well as their collaboration and citation patterns.

Scholia can present an overview of Finnish machine learning with the country–topic subaspect at https://scholia.toolforge.org/country/Q33/topic/Q2539 . The current page shows a list with e.g., Aapo Hyvärinen and Erkki Oja.

From Geospatial Data and Scholia

You need to provide names of co-authors from the past five years for every author of a submitted manuscript as well as each author's dissertation chair.

From Steven W. Webster's Twitter profile https://twitter.com/stevenwwebster/status/1028372789772865536

Scholia has not currently this kind of feature, but it should be possible to formulate a query on the Wikidata Query Service.

As an author or a reviewer of a paper you want to ensure that the paper does not cite any retracted paper.

Scholia does not provide this service at the moment. With the Wikidata Query Service is it possible to make this kind of query, though the number of papers marked as retracted are far from complete. An example query: http://tinyurl.com/ybj2rw6a

This idea was spawned from Exorcise citations to the ‘living dead’ from the literature.

As a research I want to make a research visit at a specific foreign organization and want to know which researchers in that organization are doing research in my area.

Scholia does not show this at the moment. This could be a author-organization aspect where panels show authors at the organization most related to the query author.

An author-organization aspect is implemented in Synia: https://synia.toolforge.org/#author/Q20980928/organization/Q49108

As a university student I want to write a thesis on a foreign university and I want to know researchers on my home university that has collaborated with researchers in the foreign university

In Scholia, you can go to the "organization" aspect, e.g., https://scholia.toolforge.org/organizations/Q1269766,Q193196 for DTU and UCL, that displays co-authorships between two organizations. Unfortunately, the query tends to time out. It is possible to make more efficient queries, e.g., for DTU and UCL