SERG talk: Reproducible publication research on the desktop

Abstract

Sustained exponential advances in computing power, drops in associated costs, and Open Science initiatives allow us to process on a personal computer the metadata from most major international academic publishers. Alexandria3k is an open-source software library and tool that builds on this capability to allow the conduct of sophisticated bibliometric and scientometric studies as well as systematic literature reviews in a transparent, repeatable, reproducible, and efficient manner. In total the Alexandria3k system provides relational access to 1.5 PB of data comprising 2.6 billion records. Diverse examples demonstrate the system’s use through ad hoc queries and the population of domain-specific databases.