All science journal classification (code and name) from pybliometrics, how to retrieve this info from the API

Question

I have a list of EIDs linked to Scopus authors ids, I’ve been trying to retrieve the all science journal classification(code and name) from each article but I cannot find in the pybliometrics documentation the way to do it. I would appreciate some help about this!!

Thanks!

Answer 1

If the Abstract Retrieval does not provide this information, which is frequent, use the Serial Title API for workaround:

from pybliometrics.scopus import AbstractRetrieval, SerialTitle

ab = AbstractRetrieval("2-s2.0-85068268027")
s = SerialTitle(ab.issn)
print(s.subject_area)

You get a list of namedtuples:

[Subjectarea(area='Software', abbreviation='COMP', code='1712'),
 Subjectarea(area='Computer Science Applications', abbreviation='COMP', code='1706')]

Unfortunately, the Serial Title API expects ISSNs. They are sometimes missing, occasionally wrong, and not necessarily stable. Scopus updates them twice a year.

If the ISSN is missing, try searching for the Serial (= the source) with the SerialSearch() class:

from pybliometrics.scopus import AbstractRetrieval, SerialSearch

ab = AbstractRetrieval("2-s2.0-85068268027")
s = SerialSearch({"title": ab.publicationName})

What you need would be in s.results - it can be a very long list of tuples as it contains all kinds of source metrics.