tethne.classes.paper module

A Paper represents a document in a Corpus. Paper objects behave a lot like conventional Python dictionaries, except that they are picky about the kind of data that you throw into them.

Most operations in Tethne don’t require you to interact with Papers directly.

class tethne.classes.paper.Paper

Bases: dict

Tethne’s representation of a bibliographic record.

The following fields (and corresponding data types) are permitted.

Field	Type	Description
aulast	list	Authors’ last name, as a list.
auinit	list	Authors’ first initial as a list.
institution	dict	Institutions with which the authors are affiliated.
atitle	str	Article title.
jtitle	str	Journal title or abbreviated title.
volume	str	Journal volume number.
issue	str	Journal issue number.
spage	str	Starting page of article in journal.
epage	str	Ending page of article in journal.
date	int	Article date of publication.
country	dict	Author-Country mapping.
citations	list	A list of Paper instances.
ayjid	str	First author’s name (last fi), pubdate, and journal.
doi	str	Digital Object Identifier.
pmid	str	PubMed ID.
wosid	str	Web of Science UT fieldtag value.
accession	str	Identifier for data conversion accession.

None values are also allowed for all fields.

authors()

Get the authors of the current Paper instance.

Returns:

authors : list

Author names are in the format LAST F. If there are no authors, returns an empty list.