Scholar Plot

Visualize a scholar's accomplishments at a glance!

Supported Browsers

Scholar Plot runs best on following browsers.

• Google Chrome: latest version
• Safari: latest version
• Firefox: latest version
• Internet Explorer: 10+
• Opera 15+

Funding dataset

• NSF: FY 1985 - FY 2013 (29 years, 312,311 rows, 10,769/year)
• NIH: FY 2000 - FY 2013 (14 years, 777,657 rows, 55,456/year)
• NASA: FY 2007 - FY 2015 (9 years, 16,670 rows, 1,852/year)

New Ideas

• When floating the cursor over a coauthor name, joint papers with focual author should light up to indicate the pattern and placement of coauthors papers

Changelog

06/17/2016 Changes:

• Updated the Academic Garden with cloude and have tooltips fixed.

Changelog

06/16/2016 Changes:

• 441 records updated for funding bug fixes due to min year and name

06/14/2016 Changes:

• Group Compare released

06/07/2016 Changes:

• Academic Garden released
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04/25/2016 Changes:

• All new updates released.
• CSS / HTML / Contents are all updated.

Changelog

04/12/2016 Changes:

• Search for schools and summary

Changelog

03/28/2016 Changes:

• Release the department and college plot

02/22/2016 Changes:

• Data collection starts

02/19/2016 Changes:

• New schema design Scholar-dept and Scholar-author

02/08/2016 Changes:

• Data collection form design and refinement

01/18/2016 Changes:

• Pie charts (rearranged, subtitle)

12/13/2015 Changes:

• Boxplot updated
• 5 new charts

12/18/2015 Changes:

• Departmental Compare and new Menu - Boxplot

12/11/2015 Changes:

• Complete Departmental Plot is and new Menu
• Departmental Plot is Out
• http://www.scholarplot.com/blog/index.html

12/01/2015 Changes:

• Added the mean IF value in PHP and HTML
• Rename the variable and add the variables

11/25/2015 Changes:

• Open an issue to avoid overlapping series: nvd3-community/nvd3#92

11/15/2015 Changes:

• Setup cookies for avoding Google Server Error
• Issues closed https://github.com/Kyeongan/ScholarPlot/issues/7
• Department plot draft - Need idea what data and charts are useful.

11/13/2015 Changes:

• Google Scholar gives an errors when it is being requested with privite browsing.

11/11/2015 Changes:

• Updated images for the help page.

11/10/2015 Changes:

• Remove ... et al. when Top 5 Most Cited Paper and Top 5 Journals
• Remove the horizontal line in panel by adjusiting margin-right: 5em in CSS

11/09/2015 Changes:

• Departmental visualization initial design
• Fixed the height size of publicatio plot when legends interact
• ScatterChart.js (Line 206)

11/04/2015 Changes:

• Add 5 meta tages for sharing Best Practices for Websites & Mobile Apps
• https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/
• Adjected the footer section

11/01/2015 Changes:

• Deploy the features to the production server.
• Top 5 Journals by Impact Factor
• Top 5 Most Cited Papers
• Better way to deal with space of middle efficiently

10/27/2015 Changes:

• Removed the horizontal scroll of page by adjusting text-align:center; margin: 0 auto; and width:99% in main.css
• In order to adjust panel sizes, change the number multiplied by count
• (sorted[index].count * 2.0) -> 1.5 in 324 line
• Forced no line break of the authors name and bar charts section by new CSS
• .nowrap {white-space: nowrap};
• 102 entries to scholar_autocomplete
• Started Facebook ADs

10/26/2015 Changes:

• Update php for ordering by Impact Factor (Put - value down)
• Update piwik to the new version 2.15.0
• Database Upgrade from 2.14.3 to the new version 2.15.0
• php E:\sites\cpl\kyeongan\projects\piwik/console core:update
• Different alignment of Journal Panels

10/23/2015 Changes:

• Finished new two panels both Co-Authors and Journals
• Bug fixies - IEEE (upper case), Removed Null (' ') Authors

10/21/2015 Changes:

• Added a parameter in getSortedCoAuthorString to distinguish between author and journal name
• getSortedCoAuthorString(coAuthorArray, displayCount, isNeedSplit)
• Compelted Journal Panel
• Updated php script to get counts of journals
• Updated my_sql to my_sqli

10/20/2015 Changes:

• Redesigned the getSortedCoAuthorString prototype
• getSortedCoAuthorString(coAuthorArray, displayCount)
• Created two DIV pannels at bottom of Publiction plot
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• Added JSON output

10/18/2015 Changes:

• Released the new version with NASA dataset and Facebook Social Plugins.
• ScholarPlot v1.4 relesed in iTunes Store
• Support for iOS 9 released
• https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scholar-plot/id819606976?mt=8

10/16/2015 Changes:

• Added NASA dataset: FY 2007 - FY 2015 (9 years, 16,670 rows, 1,852/year)
• Database tables: nasa_award, nasa_awardinvestigators
• Implemented nasa.php to fetch data
• Redesigned the function for total funding amount (simpler, cleaner)
• Added Facebook Social Plugins - Like Button, Page Plugin
• Refined initial page load (hiding the dialog box for insertion)

10/09/2015 Changes:

• Fixed Hang on invalid URLs.
• Fixed Triangle size bug.
• Fixed Special characters issues on all browsers.
• Updated JCR database.
• 2013 JCR 8812
• 2014 JCR 11867 (3055 more)
• 35% increase in the number of journals.

07/10/2015 Changes:

• Added Log scale and funding plots in Comparison plot
• New Interface - Tab menu allows to keep the results of plots

07/03/2015 Changes:

• Fixed new author ordering
• Finished Highlighted line on the plot
• Added dots(…) et al.
• Have deployed it to the production site
• Added Comparison plot feature

06/26/2015 Changes:

• Author list for conference and patents
• Mouse click event to hold tooltips
• New tooltip formats (next slide)
• External link to publications' information
• Updated name disambiguation
• Updated piwik analytics tool
• Display co-author names
• Add main author to top of co author list if not present
• Visualization for number of publications
• Sort by publication count
• Sort by name
• Display max 7 authors

04/24/2014 Changes:

• Registered the domains (scholarplot.com, scholarplot.org)
• Initial Release for Web

03/05/2014 Changes:

• ScholarPlot v1.0 for iOS 6 released in Apple Store
• https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scholar-plot/id819606976?mt=8

08/2013 Changes:

• Project kickoff started with iPhone version