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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 research product 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 research product 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 research product 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 research product.

"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 research product 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/"

BipIndicator

The different impact indicators as computed by BIP!.

indicator

Type: String Cardinality: ONE

The name of indicator; it can be either one of:

  • influence: it reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
  • influence_alt: it 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).
  • popularity: it reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network.
  • popularity_alt: it 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.
  • impulse: it reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.

For more details on how these indicators are calculated, please refer here.

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

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"

score

Type: String Cardinality: ONE

The actual indicator score.

"score": "1234"

Container

This field has information about the conference or journal where the research product 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 research product. For example, you can have one research product with three instances due to 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 research product 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 research product.

Each Indicator object is composed of the following properties:

bipIndicators

Type: BipIndicator Cardinality: MANY

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

For details about their calculation, please refer here.

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

usageCounts

Type: UsageCounts Cardinality: ONE

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

Please refer here for more details.

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

Language

Represents information for the language of the research product.

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"

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

This is the country associated to the research product. 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 research product.

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

ResultPid

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

scheme

Type: String Cardinality: ONE

The scheme of the persistent identifier for the research product (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"

Subject

Represents keywords associated to the research product.

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 research product.

views

Type: String Cardinality: ONE

The number of views for this research product.

"views": "10"

downloads

Type: String Cardinality: ONE

The number of downloads for this research product.

"downloads": "5"