Joshua Graff Zivin
Open-Source Software
The following open-source software tools are designed to facilitate research on knowledge creation, dissemination, and policy in the life sciences with financial support from the National Science Foundation (Award SBE-0738142).
Software Tools- PubHarvester: An open-source software tool designed to retrieve scientific publications data from MEDLINE.
- SC/Gen and Second Degree Report: Two open-source software tools to create the two-degree, egocentric coauthorship network for a set of "superstar" scientists.
- Scientific Distance: An open-source software tool designed to calculate distance between any pair of scientists in "ideas space" based on the overlap of the MeSH keywords in their publications.
