ReScience
Search by DOI of article being replicated
We see that you've added a metadata.yml to your submission template that should include the DOI of the original article being reviewed.
Are you planning on making the DOIs searchable, so that someone might check to see whether any replications have been submitted for a given DOI?
Submitted by @kerchner and @dpshelio
That's an interesting use case. It should be possible to do such a search on Zenodo if we indicate the submitted DOIs as "related identifiers". But I haven't checked out how exactly such a search would have to be formulated.
That's a very nice idea indeed. I'm not sure yet on how to add the search option but we could at least have a replicated file collecting all the DOI.
Hi, I wanted to up this. I arrived here looking for a way to search whether a paper had already been replicated or not, and I couldn't figure out how to do that, neither by DOI nor by title (on the website I can search by title of the report, not of the original paper). Thanks!
While I agree that such search functionalities are important, I don't think that implementing them as part of ReScience is the best solution. Storing relations between articles is the task of bibliographic databases and/or scientific knowledge graphs. We should aim for integration with one or the other. And once we join OJ, that would be the best context to envisage the necessary developments, for all OJ journals.
The ideal target would be OpenAlex. It doesn't index ReScience yet, but they are continuously improving coverage. There is no "replicates" relation yet either, but perhaps the OpenAlex team would be open to such an extension. But even with today's OpenAlex functionality, once ReScience is indexed there, replications would be a simple search away: You look for "cites doi xxx AND is-in-journal ReScience".
Another interesting target is WikiData, a public knowledge graph that has entries for scientific journals and articles and the relations between them. We could probably write a few scripts to submit all of ReScience automatically to WikiData, and then use their search engine. WikiData's coverage of the scientific literature is weak though, so I doubt it will ever take the place of dedicated and curated databases such as OpenAlex.
This is a side point, but isn't the title of the report a superset of the title of the original paper in all cases?
