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PORE Metrics Methodology & Standards

A transparent, deterministic, and independently verifiable research-metrics framework for Poorvam scholarly publications.

                Official Institutional Statement
            

“PORE Metrics aggregates publicly available scholarly metadata and first-party PORE activity data. Citation counts may differ between services because their coverage, matching methods, and update schedules differ. PORE Metrics is an informational research-discovery service and is not a substitute for Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Altmetric, or other proprietary bibliometric services.”

                01 — Principles
            

What PORE Metrics Measures & What It Does Not

The purpose of PORE Metrics is not to make Poorvam or its publications appear artificially prestigious. The purpose is to make scholarly activity discoverable, measurable, transparent, and independently verifiable.

PORE does not construct arbitrary journal rankings, author hierarchies, proprietary scores, or synthetic "impact factors." We provide transparent access to open bibliometric records harvested deterministically from trusted open scholarly registries.

What PORE Metrics Is

Open citation counts from OpenAlex
Open citation counts from OpenCitations
Official Crossref registration metadata
Google Scholar independent verification links
First-party aggregate readership tracking
100% deterministic & reproducible

What PORE Metrics Is NOT

Not an "Impact Factor" or "CiteScore"
Not an author or journal ranking system
Not a commercial bibliometric substitute
Not automated Google Scholar scraping
Not an AI classifier or hallucinated score
Not a gamified prestige platform

                02 — External Sources
            

Primary Integrated Scholarly Data Sources

OpenAlex (OurResearch)

Global Open Scholarly Graph

OpenAlex is a completely open catalog of hundreds of millions of scholarly works, authors, and institutions. PORE indexes works by their canonical Digital Object Identifier (DOI), retrieving the verified cited_by_count, OpenAlex Work ID, publication year, open access status, and individual citing work records.

                    API Endpoint: https://api.openalex.org/works/doi:{canonical_doi} → Canonical Work ID: W... → Public URL: https://openalex.org/works/{openalex_work_id}
                

OpenCitations (COCI)

Infrastructure for Open Scholarly Metadata

OpenCitations is an independent scholarly infrastructure organisation dedicated to open citation data. Through the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations (COCI), PORE retrieves verified citing DOI records.

                    API Endpoint: https://opencitations.net/index/coci/api/v1/citations/{canonical_doi}
                

Crossref (Official Registration Agency)

Official DOI Metadata Registry

Poorvam publications deposit scholarly metadata with Crossref. PORE synchronizes with Crossref's polite REST API to verify official registered titles, author affiliations, ORCID identifiers, and reference counts.

                    API Endpoint: https://api.crossref.org/works/{canonical_doi}
                

Google Scholar Verification

Verification & Discovery Only

Google Scholar is currently provided as a verification/discovery link. PORE does not scrape Google Scholar or automatically reproduce its citation counts.

Scraping Google Scholar violates its terms of service and produces unreliable, unverified data. By providing canonical search links, readers and scholars can independently audit the indexing status and citations of any article directly on Google Scholar.

                03 — Data Harmonization
            

Citation Deduplication & Representation Rules

Different scholarly indices index citations at different speeds and possess varying publisher coverage. PORE follows strict deterministic rules when presenting metrics:

No Blind Addition: PORE never adds OpenAlex (e.g. 8) and OpenCitations (e.g. 6) to produce an artificial sum of 14. This would double-count citing works present in both registries.
Canonical DOI Deduplication: When computing Unique Citing Works Detected Across Integrated Sources, citing works are normalized by canonical lowercase DOI. Duplicate records across providers are resolved to a single unique entry.
Conservative Merging: If a citing work lacks a DOI, PORE does not merge records solely based on title text similarity. False-positive deduplication is strictly avoided.
Zero vs. Not Available: If a provider explicitly confirms zero citations, 0 is displayed. If a record has not yet been fetched or is unavailable, Not available is displayed. Zero is never conflated with missing data.

                04 — Privacy
            

First-Party Readership & Privacy Model

PORE tracks first-party readership activity (record views, outbound reads, and downloads) strictly in aggregate. We do not store or expose IP addresses, personal identities, session trails, or private browsing data.

                05 — Architecture
            

Subsystem Isolation & Journal Independence

PORE Metrics operates as an independent discovery and research layer. It accesses existing journal metadata in a strictly read-only manner. It never modifies, writes back, or alters the existing journal publication system, article controllers, models, or database schemas.

                Status: Operational • Zero AI • Open Academic Infrastructure
            