Publication Cost Tracker

A simple tool that estimates the cost of publishing - including the % of for profit publishers - for academic authors.

• View the live demo: HERE
• How it works: Enter author name (or ORCID or OpenAlex Author ID), and the app retrieves their publications, categorizes the publishers, and estimates total costs.

Screenshot:

Running locally

To run the tool on your own machine, perform the following steps:

Step 1: Clone / download this repo to a folder on your machine.

• using the githib cli: gh repo clone dbann/grantreview
• using git: git clone https://github.com/dbann/grantreview
• manually: navigate to the repo on github.com, click on the green <> Code button, and press Download ZIP. Extract to a new folder on your machine.

Step 2: Install python & the required dependencies (found in requirements.txt).

We recommend uv to install, manage & run python. If you haven't installed uv yet, you can do so with a single line of code:

Windows: open PowerShell and run this command:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

MacOS/Linux: open a bash-compliant terminal and run:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

you can also use wget instead of curl if necessary:

wget -qO- https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Step 3: Run the app

Running the app with uv

0. Open the terminal of your choice (the one you installed uv for)
1. Navigate to the dir with the repo, e.g. cd c:\dev\pubanalyser\
2. Initialize the environment with the command uv sync. This will automatically do a local install of python with all dependencies required.
3. Run the app with the command: uv run streamlit run pubanalyser.py. This should open the app in your browser.

Without uv

If don't want to use uv: set up Python yourself, make sure to install the dependencies as listed in requirements.txt or pyproject.toml, and then run the app using python -m streamlit run pubanalyser.py.

Contact/give feedback

This is a proof of concept prototype. Feedback (david.bann@ucl.ac.uk) is welcome.