Methodology

Every figure states what it measures.

Scholaris publishes no number without the evidence behind it, the date it was calculated, and the limitation that applies to it.

How a record enters the index

01
Harvest
Records are retrieved from authoritative scholarly metadata providers. Each request is logged as part of an ingestion run with its scope and outcome.
02
Resolve
Every entity is resolved to a canonical identifier — ROR for institutions, ORCID where available for researchers, DOI for publications — before it is stored.
03
Deduplicate
A content hash is computed over the normalised payload. If the hash matches the stored record, nothing is written and the record is counted as unchanged.
04
Version
When the hash differs, the changed fields are written to a dated revision. The record's history is therefore reconstructable field by field.
05
Publish
Public pages read from the database. Coverage figures are counted at request time and stamped with the date of the last harvest.

Measure	Definition	Limitation
Recorded citations	The citation count reported by the source for a publication, researcher or institution.	Favours older work and citation-dense disciplines. Counts from different databases are never summed.
Field-normalised impact	Citations compared against the expected count for publications of the same field, type and year.	Reduces discipline bias but depends on the accuracy of the source's field classification.
Recent impact	Citations accruing to work published within the most recent complete period.	Volatile for small output volumes and unstable for very recent publications.
Open-access availability	Whether a documented open-access version of the record exists, and under which status.	Reflects what the source recorded at retrieval time, not a licensing determination.
Integrity status	Retractions, corrections and expressions of concern documented by the source.	Absence of a flag means no such record was retrieved, not that no concern exists.

Research quality
Citation counts, publication volume and institutional prestige are not treated as equivalent to quality.
Individual standing
No researcher is ranked as a person. Rankings order records, and each record links to its source.
Completeness
Coverage varies by discipline, language and region. Absence of a record is not evidence of absence of scholarship.