Advantages over using Scopus API alone

Author: paulalbert1

README.md

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 This application was written to work with [ReCiter](https://github.com/wcmc-its/ReCiter/), a tool for disambiguating articles written in PubMed and also indexed in Scopus. However, this application can work as a standalone service. In testing, it does help improve accuracy by several percentage points, but Scopus is not necessary to run ReCiter.
 
 
+## Advantages over using Scopus API alone
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+This tool has several advantages over using the Scopus API alone:
+- The Scopus API outputs data as XML while the ReCiter Scopus Retrieval Tool outputs data as JSON, a format which is easier for developers to use.
+- The Scopus API sometimes creates redundant author objects or otherwise doesn’t properly assign sequence numbers to authors. This tool addresses both problems.
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 ## Installing
 
 1. Navigate to directory where you wish to install the application, e.g., `cd ~/Paul/Documents/`