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Dynamic citation counter badge for papers with code

Key Investigators

• Mauro Ignacio Dominguez (Independent, Argentina)

Project Description

Dynamic citation counter badges display up-to-date citation counts, making it easy to track a paper’s real-time impact. They encourage researchers to share code by linking visibility and recognition to reproducible work. Embedding badges in GitHub or documentation connects the code directly with its academic influence. They ensure transparency by pulling citation data from trusted sources automatically. Overall, they promote open science, reproducibility, and fair recognition in the research community.

Objective

1. Achieve a dynamic citation counter badge from a given paper with code if possible

Approach and Plan

1. Write the steps to get the dynamic citation counter badge from a given paper with code
2. Research most trustable and comprehensive scientific-research metrics web sites or APIs
3. Write a python script that takes a DOI (i.e. Digital Object Identifier) and a scientific-research metrics source as input and gives a dynamic citation counter badge image (and its markdown code) as output
4. Test and implement on a paper with code repository, on the README.md

Progress and Next Steps

1. Project was successful
2. Implementation here: https://gist.github.com/mauigna06/81a593644ec46e520adf4a7561d2075e
3. Use badgeCreator function on python

Illustrations

• Dynamic badge with link reference: (code)
• Dynamic badge without link reference:
• Demo picture below of repository of BoneReconstructionPlanner extension
• Dynamic badge for Slicer’s paper:

Background and References

• https://shields.io/badges/dynamic-json-badge
• https://www.semanticscholar.org/
• https://openalex.org/
• https://www.crossref.org/
• https://github.com/SlicerIGT/SlicerBoneReconstructionPlanner/tree/main#bonereconstructionplanner