Automating bibliometric analyses using Taverna scientific workflows: A tutorial on integrating Web Services

What is it about?

In this paper we describe how to build simple workflows for systematically searching the scientific literature using the Europe PMC web services. We provide several examples as executable Taverna workflows.

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Why is it important?

Most new scientific endeavors begin with a literature search. Using workflows and programmatic access to bibliographic databases makes these searches systematic, sharable, and reproducible.