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Here is an e-mail forward I received today, which may be of interest to the Zotero community and anybody working on the SSRN Translator:
*SSRN's CITEREADER™ REFERENCE AND CITATION PROJECT*
We have been working on extracting references from all SSRN papers for 5
years as part of the CiteReader™ project that SSRN has undertaken with
our development firm, ITX Corp. We have created a system to extract
references and footnotes from PDF files on SSRN and to have that
extracted data proofread by human beings. While this project is not yet
complete, we are now announcing the release of over 6.7 million
references extracted from the reference sections of over 182,000 papers
on the SSRN site as well as over 4.2 million citations that we have
linked to SSRN papers.
– The references from each SSRN paper (where we have been able to
extract them) can be found on the REFERENCES tab on the public abstract
page for each paper.
– The citations we have matched to each SSRN paper are available on the
CITATIONS tab on the public abstract page for the paper.
– These reference links provide an excellent way for any reader to go
back in the literature in any area, and the citation links provide an
excellent way to go forward in the literature.
*Data on the Current State of SSRN's CiteReader™ Project*
– Papers with Resolved References: 182,645 out of the 269,996 full text
papers on SSRN
– Total References Resolved: 6,689,847
– SSRN Papers with Resolved Citations: 180,339
– Total Citation Links between the Cited and the Citing Paper: 4,277,354
– Papers with Resolved Footnotes: 60,721 (we are giving footnote
extraction priority to papers with no reference section)
– Total Extracted Footnotes: 6,899,585
NOTE: References in those papers on SSRN that do not have a Reference
section have not been fully extracted as yet. We are working on this.
These papers (primarily law papers) have their references in footnotes.
This means that citations from law papers are currently dramatically
undercounted in SSRN citation statistics.
SSRN is now extracting footnotes from all papers while giving processing
priority to those papers with no reference section. We have extracted
over 6.9 million footnotes from over 60,000 papers with no Reference
sections thus far. These footnotes and the references we extract from
them will also be appearing in tabs on SSRN's abstract pages. SSRN is
now perfecting the algorithms for extracting references from these
footnotes. The undercounting of citations from and to law papers will be
resolved over the next year as our algorithms are perfected and
references from papers with no reference section are extracted from
footnotes and linked to the papers being cited.
Sincerely,
Michael C. Jensen
Chairman
Social Science Research Network
*SSRN's CITEREADER™ REFERENCE AND CITATION PROJECT*
We have been working on extracting references from all SSRN papers for 5
years as part of the CiteReader™ project that SSRN has undertaken with
our development firm, ITX Corp. We have created a system to extract
references and footnotes from PDF files on SSRN and to have that
extracted data proofread by human beings. While this project is not yet
complete, we are now announcing the release of over 6.7 million
references extracted from the reference sections of over 182,000 papers
on the SSRN site as well as over 4.2 million citations that we have
linked to SSRN papers.
– The references from each SSRN paper (where we have been able to
extract them) can be found on the REFERENCES tab on the public abstract
page for each paper.
– The citations we have matched to each SSRN paper are available on the
CITATIONS tab on the public abstract page for the paper.
– These reference links provide an excellent way for any reader to go
back in the literature in any area, and the citation links provide an
excellent way to go forward in the literature.
*Data on the Current State of SSRN's CiteReader™ Project*
– Papers with Resolved References: 182,645 out of the 269,996 full text
papers on SSRN
– Total References Resolved: 6,689,847
– SSRN Papers with Resolved Citations: 180,339
– Total Citation Links between the Cited and the Citing Paper: 4,277,354
– Papers with Resolved Footnotes: 60,721 (we are giving footnote
extraction priority to papers with no reference section)
– Total Extracted Footnotes: 6,899,585
NOTE: References in those papers on SSRN that do not have a Reference
section have not been fully extracted as yet. We are working on this.
These papers (primarily law papers) have their references in footnotes.
This means that citations from law papers are currently dramatically
undercounted in SSRN citation statistics.
SSRN is now extracting footnotes from all papers while giving processing
priority to those papers with no reference section. We have extracted
over 6.9 million footnotes from over 60,000 papers with no Reference
sections thus far. These footnotes and the references we extract from
them will also be appearing in tabs on SSRN's abstract pages. SSRN is
now perfecting the algorithms for extracting references from these
footnotes. The undercounting of citations from and to law papers will be
resolved over the next year as our algorithms are perfected and
references from papers with no reference section are extracted from
footnotes and linked to the papers being cited.
Sincerely,
Michael C. Jensen
Chairman
Social Science Research Network