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About ReCiter

ReCiter is an algorithm and web service for making highly accurate assertions about author identity in publication metadata. It is designed with institutional users in mind so that they can maintain accurate and up-to-date author publication lists for thousands of people. ReCiter is optimized for disambiguating authorship in PubMed and, optionally, Scopus.

ReCiter rapidly and accurately identifies articles by specific authors, including those at previous affiliations. It does this by leveraging institutionally maintained identity data (e.g., departments, relationships, email addresses, year of degree, etc.)

With the more complete and efficient searches that result from combining these types of data, you can save time and your institution can be more productive. If you run ReCiter daily, you can ensure that the desired users are the first to learn when a new publication has hit PubMed.

As described in the algorithm documentation, ReCiter is designed to mimic well-informed human judgment.

This page describes how to install and use ReCiter.

The source code (Copyright 2017, Weill Cornell Medical College) is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use ReCiter except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.or/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “as is” basis, without warranties or conditions of any kind, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.