Automated online discovery of open source projects in scientific publications

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A tool that compiles a list of new projects in this way of the last X years can significantly help the discovery of new projects and the usage of projects.

Most of the open source project in this ecosystem are developed and used within science. Manually searching for projects with the keyword "git" in combination with the keyword dictionary of the ecosystem is a good way to identify new projects. At the same time it is another way to identify the usage of open source projects.

A short search showed that there are a lot of open source tools that might be suitable for this work:

• https://github.com/scholarly-python-package/scholarly
• https://github.com/nealhaddaway/GSscraper
• https://github.com/matthiasprobst/zenodo_search
• https://github.com/dennissergeev/atmosscibot