WHO Cites Who
Authorship and citation network analysis in pathology literature
whowriteswho.github.io | Bibliometrics companion site |https://github.com/sbalci/WHO-CNS
https://github.com/sbalci/whociteswho
https://whociteswho.patoloji.dev/
- No private or licensed datasets.
Tools and repositories
bibliometrics— main analysis notebook.whowriteswho— code for the companion site.whowriteswho.github.io— published site.- Visualization:
igraph,ggraph, and D3 on the published site.
How to contribute
- Reproduce the metadata fetch against a small date range.
- Propose one refinement to author disambiguation, backed by a failing test case.
- Add one new community-level figure with a one-paragraph interpretation.
Pitfalls
- Author disambiguation is never perfect. Report the ambiguity rate alongside any author-level metric.
- OpenAlex is updated continuously. Cache the metadata pull per analysis run so results are reproducible.
In the research wiki
- Citation Network Analysis — the method page: building and analysing author and citation networks from open metadata.
- OpenAlex Pathology Metadata — the dataset, and the only one in this wiki with no patient data in it at all.
- WHO CNS — Who Cites Who — the WHO CNS citation analysis — the most methodologically careful project recorded here, and the source of the coverage-bias page below.
- Coverage Bias — the finding that generalised out of that work: when the records carrying a field are not a random sample, the metric partly measures your data collection. Declare the denominator, coverage-correct, rarefy.
- Bibliometrics — Who Cites Who — the repository’s pointer page.