Prepare report for publication and citation statistics

This page details the instructions on preparing statistics for paper publication and citations. An example report can be found here: EXAMPLE

Github repository: https://github.com/STAR-PAC/GPCs

PAPER STATUS

Plotting macro: Statistics/plotJournalSummary.C
Update the statistics arrays based on https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/pwg/common/Physics-Analysis-Coordination/Accepted-papers, and run the macro. The figure of publication numbers vs. year will be generated automatically.
Commit changes to Github

PAPER CITATION

Go to "Citation" directory in the Git repository
Copy the latest "STAR_pub_YEAR_MON.txt" file, and create a new one with the appropriate date
- Update the new text file as appropriate for bookkeeping
Go to: https://inspirehep.net/
Put in the search phrase as in the text file
- If there are papers published in a new journal, add the new journal to the search phrase and make sure those papers are picked up correctly
Turn on “Cite Summary”
Click on "Exclude RPP"
Take a screen shot of the webpage, save it to the "Citation" directory with the name "CitationSummary_YEAR_MON.png"
Open Citation/citationvsyear.xlsx, add a new row with the date and the average citation, and update the plot, save the plot as a png file with the name "CitationChart_YEAR_MON.png"
Commit changes to Github

TIME SPENT

cd STAR-PAC/GPCs/GPCdist/
make a new directory 20XX_YYY by coping from the latest directory
cd 20XX_YYY
rename STARpapersXXYYZZ.xlsx using appropriate date
copy to Sheet1 of STARpapersXXYYZZ.xlsx from the content on https://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/common/GPCs/gpc-committees.xml
copy column “Date GPC Formed Date to Collaboration Date Submitted for publication Date Published (Accepted)” from Sheet4 to Sheet5
try to fix issues (unrecognizable input) on Sheet5
copy the content from Sheet5 to STARpapersXXYYZZ.txt, remove entries that are negative or 0
copy STARpapersXXYYZZ.txt to TimeInAll.txt,
update plotStat.C as appropriate for “NGPC”, “NColl”, “NReview”, “NY”, “nx”
root.exe -x -b -q plotStat.C’(“GPC”)’
root.exe -x -b -q plotStat.C’(“Coll”)’
root.exe -x -b -q plotStat.C’(“Review”)’
Note: take a look at the files in the directory 2023_Feb to see how this works. Feel free to improve the process.