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Community and Contributing

Intended users​

SCOPE is intended for:

  • researchers studying science, technology, and academia;
  • scientists interested in understanding their own fields;
  • research funders and science-policy organizations;
  • universities and research institutions;
  • conference organizers, editors, and reviewers;
  • policymakers and public agencies;
  • journalists and public-interest organizations;
  • students learning bibliometrics, scientometrics, or computational social science;
  • developers building open research infrastructure.

Project structure​

The repository may evolve to include:

  • collectors/ — tools for retrieving data from supported sources;
  • schemas/ — common data models and field definitions;
  • pipelines/ — cleaning, linking, validation, and transformation workflows;
  • datasets/ — versioned dataset manifests and release documentation;
  • analyses/ — reproducible research analyses;
  • reports/ — long-form reports and policy briefs;
  • website/ — the Docusaurus public website;
  • docs/ — technical and methodological documentation;
  • tests/ — validation and regression tests;
  • examples/ — tutorials and small reproducible examples.

Large, restricted, or externally licensed data should not be committed directly to the repository. Instead, SCOPE should provide retrieval instructions, manifests, checksums, and derived datasets when redistribution is permitted.

Contributing​

SCOPE welcomes contributions from software engineers, data scientists, domain researchers, social scientists, historians, policymakers, and members of the public.

Contributions may include:

  • new data connectors;
  • data validation and documentation;
  • analytical methods;
  • replications of existing reports;
  • discipline-specific case studies;
  • qualitative research;
  • policy analysis;
  • website and visualization improvements;
  • corrections and critical evaluations of SCOPE’s own methods.

Contributors should follow the project’s standards for reproducibility, documentation, privacy, licensing, and responsible interpretation.