pyaltmetric 0.1.1

Installation

pip install pyaltmetric

Usage

Fetching by individual citations by identifiers:

from pyaltmetric import Altmetric

a = Altmetric()

a.id("241939")
a.doi("10.1038/news.2011.490")
a.pmid("21148220")
a.rxiv("1108.2455")
a.ads("2012apphl.100y3104b")

a = Altmetric("api_key_goes_here")

Querying the Altmetric.com database:

a.citations("1w", page=1, nlmid="0410462")

Reading a citation:

from pyaltmetric import Citation

b = a.id("241939")
c = Citation(b)

print c.title

for field in c:
    print field

Reading multiple citations:

form pyaltmetric import CitationCollection

b = Citation(a.id("241939"))
c = Citation(a.doi("10.1038/news.2011.490"))

d = CitationCollection()
d.add_citation(b, c)

for citation in c:
    print citation

• Free software: BSD license