A Citation Data Collector Tool of Author’s Profiles in Scopus Based on Web and Application Programming Interface (API)

Abstract

Improving the quality of publications will enhance teaching, support community service, and improve the campus reputation. One of the measurements of research quality can be observed by looking at the number of citations. The more research cited, the greater the effect it will have on other research. In addition, the publication of research results is used by most researchers in relation to the promotion of their academic positions. The position of the author in the research affects the weight value of his/her publication. At this time, no application can be used to classify the author’s position of each publication produced. This paper aims to create an application that acted as a search engine to retrieve and collect researcher data along with a list of their publications from the Scopus database. The application uses a REST API or Web Service of Scopus. Web Service allows the integration of various systems with different platforms or architectures for sharing data and services. This application was built using the PHP and JavaScript programming languages. The application’s development uses the Agile Software Development method. Users can also save the search results for the researcher data and researcher documents list in the MySQL database. Furthermore, this application also allows users to download the search result in their computer devices. The System Usability Scale (SUS) method was used to test the application’s usability and gained 80 as the final score.