PLOS comment data
Simon Wakeling
10.15131/shef.data.7477244.v1
https://orda.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/PLOS_comment_data/7477244
<p>This data set consists of all comments (and associated metadata) left on
PLOS articles since the launch of the very first PLOS journal (PLOS Biology) in
2003. The data set provded by PLOS included article ID, comment ID, the title
of the comment, the comment itself, and the date and time the comment was
created. PLOS required that the ‘display name’ (the username created by the
individual making the comment) associated with comments be anonymised, and each
comment author’s ‘display name’ was therefore converted by them to a unique
numeric ID. These data were supplemented in a number of ways. In some cases,
additional data (e.g. article title and publication date) were collected using
a web scraping tool, while in others, information could be extracted or
inferred from the original PLOS data (e.g. publishing journal, and whether the
comment was original or a reply to an existing comment). </p>Full details of the data set and how it was derived can be found in the accompanying "Guide to data".
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