Results set

Each response of the API returns a list of metadata for a given article. This list differs for each API. Arcas is designed to return a similar set of metadata for any given API. Thus the json results of Arcas has the following list of metadata:

• key

  • A generated key containing an authors name and publication year (e.g. Glynatsi2017)

• unique_key

  • A unique key generated using the hashlib python library. The hashable string is created by: [author name, title, year,abstract]

• title

  • Title of article

• author

  • A single entity of an author from the list of authors of the respective article

• abstract

  • The abstract of the article

• date

  • Date of publication

• doi

  • Article’s doi

• url

  • Article’s url

• journal

  • Journal of publication

• pages

  • Pages of publication

• key_word

  • A single entity of a keyword assigned to the article by the given journal

• provenance

  • Scholarly database for where the article was collected

• category

  • A list of subjects given to the article by the authors

• score

  • Score given to article by the given journal

• open_access

  • A boolean describing whether the article is open access or not

Note that if a specific result is not available by an API, not because is missing but because is not implemented, Arcas returns 'Not available' for the value of that column.