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Other component objects

Here, we describe other component objects that are used as part of the main graph entities.

AccessRight​

Subclass of BestAccessRight, indicates information about rights held in and over the resource and the open Access Route.

openAccessRoute​

Type: One of { gold, green, hybrid, bronze } • Cardinality: ONE

Indicates the OpenAccess status. Values are set according to the Unpaywall methodology.

"openAccessRoute": "gold"

AlternateIdentifier​

Type used to represent the information associated to persistent identifiers associated to the result that have not been forged by an authority for that pid type. For example we collect metadata from an institutional repository that provides as identifier for the result also the doi.

scheme​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Vocabulary reference.

"scheme": "doi"

value​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Value from the given scheme/vocabulary.

"value": "10.1016/j.respol.2021.104226"

APC​

Indicates the money spent to make a book or article available in Open Access. Sources for this information includes the OpenAPC initiative.

currency​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The system of money in which the amount is expressed (Euro, USD, etc).

"currency": "EU"

amount​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The quantity of money.

"amount": "1000"

Author​

Represents the result author.

fullname​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Author's full name.

"fullname": "Turunen, Heidi"

name​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Author's given name.

"name": "Heidi"

surname​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Author's family name.

"surname": "Turunen"

rank​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Author's order in the list of authors for the given result.

"rank": 1

pid​

Type: AuthorPid • Cardinality: ONE

Persistent identifier associated with this author.

"pid": {
    "id": {
        "scheme": "orcid",
        "value": "0000-0001-7169-1177" 
    },
    "provenance": {
        "provenance": "Harvested",
        "trust": "0.9" 
    }
}

AuthorPid​

The author's persistent identifier.

id​

Type: AuthorPidSchemaValue • Cardinality: ONE

"id": {
    "scheme": "orcid",
    "value": "0000-0001-7169-1177" 
}

provenance​

Type: Provenance • Cardinality: ONE

The reason why the pid was associated to the author.

"provenance": {
    "provenance": "Inferred by OpenAIRE",
    "trust": "0.85" 
}

AuthorPidSchemaValue​

Type used to represent the scheme and value for the author's pid.

schema​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The author's pid scheme. OpenAIRE currently supports ORCID.

"scheme": "orcid"

value​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The author's pid value in that scheme.

"value": "0000-1111-2222-3333"

BestAccessRight​

Indicates the most open access rights *available among the result Instances.

* where the openness is defined by the ordering of the access right terms in the following.

OPEN SOURCE > OPEN > EMBARGO (6MONTHS) > EMBARGO (12MONTHS) > RESTRICTED > CLOSED > UNKNOWN

code​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

COAR access mode code: http://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/documentation/access_rights/.

"code": "c_16ec"

label​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Label for the access mode.

"label": "RESTRICTED"

scheme​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Scheme of reference for access right code. Currently, always set to COAR access rights vocabulary: http://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/documentation/access_rights/.

"scheme": "http://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/documentation/access_rights/"

Container​

This field has information about the conference or journal where the result has been presented or published.

name​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Name of the journal or conference.

"name": "Research Policy"

issnPrinted​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The journal printed issn.

"issnPrinted": "0048-7333"

issnOnline​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The journal online issn.

"issnOnline": "1873-7625"

issnLinking​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The journal linking issn.

iss​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The journal issue.

"iss": "5"

sp​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The start page.

"sp": "12"

ep​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The end page.

"ep": "22"

vol​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The journal volume.

"vol": "50"

edition​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The edition of the journal or conference.

conferenceplace​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The place of the conference.

"conferenceplace": "Padua, Italy"

conferencedate​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The date of the conference.

"conferencedate": "2022-09-22"

ControlledField​

Generic type used to represent the information described by a scheme and a value in that scheme (i.e. pid).

scheme​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Vocabulary reference.

"scheme": "DOI"

value​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Value from the given scheme/vocabulary.

"value": "10.5281/zenodo.4707307"

Country​

To represent the generic country code and label.

code​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.

"code" : "IT"

label​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The country label.

"label": "Italy"

Funding​

Funding information for a project.

funding_stream​

Type: FundingStream • Cardinality: ONE

Funding information for the project.

"funding_stream": {
    "description": "Horizon 2020 Framework Programme - Research and Innovation action",
    "id": "EC::H2020::RIA"
}

jurisdiction​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Geographical jurisdiction (e.g. for European Commission is EU, for Croatian Science Foundation is HR).

"jurisdiction": "EU"

name​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The name of the funder.

"name": "European Commission"

shortName​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The short name of the funder.

"shortName": "EC"

FundingStream​

Description of a funding stream.

id​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The identifier of the funding stream.

"id": "EC::H2020::RIA"

description​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Short description of the funding stream.

"description": "Horizon 2020 Framework Programme - Research and Innovation action"

GeoLocation​

Represents the geolocation information.

point​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

A point with Latitude and Longitude.

"point": "7.72486 50.1084"

box​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

A specified bounding box defined by two longitudes (min and max) and two latitudes (min and max). 

"box": "18.569386 54.468973  18.066832 54.83707"

place​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The name of a specific place.

"place": "Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Southern Germany"

Grant​

The money granted to a project.

currency​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The currency of the granted amount (e.g. EUR).

"currency": "EUR"

fundedamount​

Type: Number • Cardinality: ONE

The funded amount.

"fundedamount": 1.0E7

totalcost​

Type: Number • Cardinality: ONE

The total cost of the project.

"totalcost": 1.0E7

H2020Programme​

The H2020 programme funding a project.

code​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The code of the programme.

"code": "H2020-EU.1.4.1.3."

description​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The description of the programme.

"description": "Development, deployment and operation of ICT-based e-infrastructures"

Instance​

An instance is one specific materialization or version of the result. For example, you can have one result with three instances as result of deduplication:

  • one is the pre-print
  • one is the post-print
  • one is the published version

Each instance is characterized by the properties that follow.

accessright​

Type: AccessRight • Cardinality: ONE

Maps dc:rights, describes the access rights of the web resources relative to this instance.

"accessright": {
    "code": "c_abf2",
    "label": "OPEN",
    "openAccessRoute": "gold",
    "scheme": "http://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/documentation/access_rights/" 
}

alternateIdentifier​

Type: AlternateIdentifier • Cardinality: MANY

All the identifiers associated to the result other than the authoritative ones.

"alternateIdentifier": [
    {
        "scheme": "doi",
        "value": "10.1016/j.respol.2021.104226"
    },
    ...
]

articleprocessingcharge​

Type: APC • Cardinality: ONE

The money spent to make this book or article available in Open Access. Source for this information is the OpenAPC initiative.

"articleprocessingcharge": {
    "currency": "EUR",
    "amount": "1000" 
}

license​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The license URL.

"license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"

pid​

Type: ResultPid • Cardinality: MANY

The set of persistent identifiers associated to this instance that have been collected from an authority for the pid type (i.e. Crossref/Datacite for doi). See the OpenAIRE entity identifier and PID mapping policy for more information.

"pid": [
    {
        "scheme": "pmc",
        "value": "PMC8024784"
    },
    ...
]

publicationdate​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The publication date of the research product.

"publicationdate": "2009-02-12"

refereed​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Describes if this instance has been peer-reviewed or not. Allowed values are peerReviewed, nonPeerReviewed, UNKNOWN (as defined in https://api.openaire.eu/vocabularies/dnet:review_levels). For example:

based on guidelines covers the vocabularies

"refereed": "UNKNOWN"

type​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The specific sub-type of this instance (see https://api.openaire.eu/vocabularies/dnet:result_typologies following the links)

"type": "Article"

url​

Type: String • Cardinality: MANY

URLs to the instance. They may link to the actual full-text or to the landing page at the hosting source.

"url": [
    "https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/folio/article/view/4296",
    ...    
]

Indicator​

These are indicators computed for a specific OpenAIRE result.

Each Indicator object is composed of the following properties:

impactMeasures​

Type: ImpactMeasures • Cardinality: ONE

These impact-based indicators, provided by BIP!, estimate the impact of a result.

For details about their calculation, please refer here.

"impactMeasures": {
        "influence": {
                "score": "123",
                "class": "C2"
        },
        "influence_alt" : {
               "score": "456",
               "class": "C3"
        },
        "popularity": {
               "score": "234",
               "class": "C1"
        },
        "popularity_alt": {
               "score": "345",
               "class": "C5"
        },
        "impulse": {
                "score": "987",
                "class": "C3"
        }
}

usageCounts​

Type: UsageCounts • Cardinality: ONE

These measures, computed by the UsageCounts Service, are based on usage statistics.

"usageCounts":{
      "downloads": "10",
      "views": "20"
}

Language​

Represents information for the language of the result

code​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Alpha-3/ISO 639-2 code of the language. Values controlled by the dnet:languages vocabulary.

"code": "eng"

label​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Language label in English.

"label": "English"

ImpactMeasures​

The different impact-based indicators as computed by BIP!.

influence​

Type: Score • Cardinality: ONE

This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). For more details please refer here.

"influence": {
    "score": "123",
    "class": "C2"
}

influence_alt​

Type: Score • Cardinality: ONE

This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). For more details please refer here.

"influence_alt" :{
    "score": "456",
    "class": "C3"
}

popularity​

Type: Score • Cardinality: ONE

This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. For more details please refer here.

"popularity":{
    "score": "234",
    "class": "C1"
}

popularity_alt​

Type: Score • Cardinality: ONE

This is an alternative to the "Popularity" indicator, which also reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. For more details please refer here.

"popularity_alt":{
    "score": "345",
    "class": "C5"
}

impulse​

Type: Score • Cardinality: ONE

This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. For more details please refer here.

"impulse":{
    "score": "987",
    "class": "C3"
}

OrganizationPid​

The schema and value for identifiers of the organization.

scheme​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Vocabulary reference (i.e. isni).

"scheme" : "GRID"

value​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Value from the given scheme/vocabulary (i.e. 0000000090326370).

"value" : "grid.7119.e"

Provenance​

Indicates the process that produced (or provided) the information, and the trust associated to the information.

provenance​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Provenance term from the vocabulary dnet:provenanceActions.

"provenance": "Harvested"

trust​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Trust, expressed as a number in the range [0-1].

"trust": "0.9"

ResultCountry​

It is for the country associated to the result. It is a subclass of Country and extends it with provenance information.

provenance​

Type: Provenance • Cardinality: ONE

Indicates the reason why this country is associated to this result.

"provenance": {
    "provenance": "inferred by OpenAIRE",
    "trust": "0.85"
}

ResultPid​

Type used to represent the information associated to persistent identifiers for the result that have been forged by an authority for that pid type.

scheme​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The scheme of the persistent identifier for the result (i.e. doi). If the pid is here it means the information for the pid has been collected from an authority for that pid type (i.e. Crossref/Datacite for doi). The set of authoritative pid is: doi when collected from Crossref or Datacite, pmid when collected from EuroPubmed, arxiv when collected from arXiv, handle from the repositories.

"scheme": "doi"

value​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The value expressed in the scheme (i.e. 10.1000/182).

"value": "10.21511/bbs.13(3).2018.13"

Score​

The specific score object for each calculated impact measure calculated by BIP!.

score​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The actual indicator score.

"score": "1234"

class​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The impact class assigned based on the indicator score.

To facilitate comprehension, BIP! also offers impact classes for articles, to group together those that have similar impact. The following 5 classes are provided:

  • C1: Top 0.01%
  • C2: Top 0.1%
  • C3: Top 1%
  • C4: Top 10%
  • C5: Bottom 90%
"class": "C2"

Subject​

Represents keywords associated to the result.

subject​

Type: SubjectSchemeValue • Cardinality: ONE

Contains the subject term: subject type (keyword, MeSH, etc) and the subject term (medicine, chemistry, etc.).

"subject": {
    "scheme": "keyword",
    "value": "SVOC"
}

provenance​

Type: Provenance • Cardinality: ONE

Contains provenance information for the subject term.

"provenance": {
    "provenance": "Harvested",
    "trust": "0.9"
}

SubjectSchemeValue​

Subject classification against a vocabulary

scheme​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

OpenAIRE subject classification scheme (https://api.openaire.eu/vocabularies/dnet:subject_classification_typologies).

"scheme" : "keyword"

value​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The value for the subject in the selected scheme. When the scheme is 'keyword', it means that the subject is free-text (i.e. not a term from a controlled vocabulary).

"value" : "pyrolysis-oil"

UsageCounts​

The usage counts indicator computed for this result.

views​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The number of views for this result.

"views": "10"

downloads​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The number of downloads for this result.

"downloads": "5"