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Web of Science and use of quotaWeb of Science and use of quota

Depending on the subscription you have with Web of Science (WoS), there is a quota on how much data you can import using the various integrations. This page explains the number of calls used when importing and updating data from Web of Science (WoS)

API Type Standard Quota Notes
Starter API Standard quota is 5.000 calls per day  Your institution may have another quota
Expanded API Standard quota is 50.000 calls per year Your institution may have another quota

How can I see my current usage?

You can always track how much of your quota you have used from Pure → Administration → Integrations → Request tracking.

This area will show an overview of how many tracking requests that has been used for your current quota. For more information on this overview page, please refer to our release notes

 

 
 

 

Note

When importing publications into Pure, we use the starter API as much as possible, because this API gives you most calls toward your quota. 

Therefore, when searching for content we always use the Starter API, but when retrieving content we use the Expanded API if you have a subscription or else the Starter API

 

 

Below is a description of the APIs Pure uses related to Clarivate/Web of Science, and a summary of the quota usage for each:

API Description Standard API usage Expanded API usage
Journal Used for importing Journal metrics from Web of Science  No calls are used towards your quota No calls are used towards your quota
Insights API Used of importing article level metrics “Highly cited” + “Hot Paper” No calls are used towards your quota No calls are used towards your quota
Import citations Used for addition and update of citations Can not be used with the Starter API No calls are used towards you quota
Import publications one by one Used when you do a manual import from Web of Science import source. 
  • 1 search equals 1 call towards your Starter API quota
  • For each publication imported equals 1 call towards your Starter API quota
  • 1 search equals 1 call your Starter API quota
  • For each publication imported equals 1 call towards your Expanded API quota
Automated search on Persons Used when you have set up Automated search for Web of Science on Persons
  • 1 Persons search profile equals 1 call per 50 publications towards the Starter API (this is repeated once per 7 days as default)
  • Example: A person with 500 publications in Web of Science equals 10 calls per week towards the starter API. As all publications are pulled into Pure every week. Once in Pure we remove the publications presented as candidates that already has been imported
  • Additionally, all publications imported equals 1 call towards the Starter API
  • 1 Persons search profile equals 1 call per 50 publications towards the Starter API (this is repeated once per 7 days as default)
  • Example: A person with 500 publications in Web of Science equals 10 calls per week towards the starter API. As all publications are pulled into Pure every week. Once in Pure we remove the publications presented as candidates that already has been imported
  • Additionally, all publications imported equals 1 call towards the Expanded API
Automated search on Organisations Used when you have set up Automated search for Web of Science on Organisations
  • 1 Organisation search profile equals 1 call per 50 publications towards the Starter API (this is repeated once per 7 days as default)
  • Example: An organisation with 5000 publications in Web of Science equals 100 calls per week towards the starter API. As all publications are pulled into Pure every week. Once in Pure we remove the publications presented as candidates that already has been imported. Note, when looking for publications in WoS we as default only look for publications published within the last 730 days
  • Additionally, all publications imported equals 1 call towards the Starter API
  • 1 Organisation search profile equals 1 call per 50 publications towards the Starter API (this is repeated once per 7 days as default)
  • Example: An organisation with 5000 publications in Web of Science equals 100 calls per week towards the starter API. As all publications are pulled into Pure every week. Once in Pure we remove the publications presented as candidates that already has been imported. Note, when looking for publications in WoS we as default only look for publications published within the last 730 days
  • Additionally, all publications imported equals 1 call towards the Expanded API
Available Updates Used if you have enabled the Available updates job.  Can not be used with the Starter API
  • We check all publications in Pure towards the expanded API, where there has been an update in the API since the last time we checked. No calls are done towards your quota on checking
  • If there is an update, we use 1 call towards your Expanded API quota per publication.
  • NOTE: First time you run available updates towards WoS, it can hit your quota quite hard

 

Published at November 06, 2024

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