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Academic

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Providers using this tag (15)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
FigshareResearch DataData RepositoryOpen ScienceDOI1 API51.1IEEE XploreScience And MathScholarly PublishingEngineeringComputer Science1 API44.4Semantic ScholarResearchPapersCitations3 APIs43.9Web of Science APIsResearchBibliometricsCitations2 APIs43.8
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
AccuraCiteCitationsResearchBibliography1 API37.7ORCIDIdentityResearchers16 APIs35.0FatcatScholarlyResearchOpen Access1 API33.1ACM Digital LibraryBibliographic RecordsCitationsComputing3 APIs32.4Taylor & FrancisBooksJournalsMetadata4 APIs30.4OpenCitationsCitationsScholarlyResearchOpen Science2 APIs28.3UnpaywallOpen AccessScholarly ArticlesResearch1 API27.7
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
InterfolioCompanyEducationHigher EducationFaculty Information System2 APIs25.2Citation File FormatCitationMetadataOpen Standard6 APIs19.4
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
WileyPublishingEducationResearch3.0ResearchGateCompanyConsumer InternetResearch2.5

APIs with this tag (5)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Sisu (Kori) Student Information System — University of Helsinki tenantTENANT RELATIONSHIP, NOT A UNIVERSITY CONTRACT. The University runs its own instance of Sisu, the student i...54.1FenixEdu Academic API (Instituto Superior Tecnico)Public REST API of the FenixEdu academic information system operated by Instituto Superior Tecnico, a schoo...48.6McGill Course Catalogue on CourseLeaf (tenant)McGill's official course catalogue, published on CourseLeaf. It carries an undocumented but live machine-re...45.1HBKU Academic Catalog — Course SearchHBKU publishes its academic catalog on its own host, catalog.hbku.edu.qa, running CourseLeaf. The catalog s...42.3
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
Taylor & Francis Text and Data Mining APITaylor & Francis provides API-based text and data mining access to subscribed and open-access content for n...30.4

Companies reaching this through an API (4)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Academic” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Hamad Bin Khalifa University McGill University University of Helsinki University of Lisbon

Score breakdown

Frequency
35.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
34.6
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
5.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Scholarly 6 co-occurrences Citations 5 co-occurrences DOI 8 co-occurrences Open Access 9 co-occurrences Research 15 co-occurrences Publishing 5 co-occurrences Metadata 10 co-occurrences Higher Education 5 co-occurrences

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