SC/Gen and SocialNetworking

The SC/Gen project consists a pair of software tools that work with the Publication Harvester (a software tool that downloads publications from PubMed). The SC/Gen program searches the publications downloaded by the Publication Harvester, compares them with a roster of people, and identifies colleagues of each star in the original database. The Social Networking program does a second-degree social networking search on the colleagues generated by SC/Gen.

The Publication Harvester, SC/Gen and Social Networking software runs on Windows 7, 8, and 10 (and works fine on previous versions as well). It was written in C#, and requires .NET Framework 4.0.

The user manual describes installation and use of the SC/Gen and Social Networking software. (It's also available as a PDF).

The software requirements specification that was used used to develop and maintain the SC/Gen program can be found here. A separate specification was used to develop the Social Networking software, and can be found here

Software downloads:

• The latest version of the SC/Gen and Social Networking programs can be downloaded from the GitHub releases page.
• Previous versions can be downloaded here.
• The C# source code can be downloaded from Github. (The source for this project is combined with the source code from its sister project, PublicationHarvester. The Publication Harvester project is an open source project.. You'll need Visual Studio to compile it. It compiles just fine in Visual C# 2013 Express Edition for Desktop, which you can download for free from Microsoft's website.

Quick start:

1. You'll need to start with a database created by the Publication Harvester, so you'll need to follow its installation instructions first.
2. Download the latest version of the SC/Gen and Social Networking installers and run them.
3. Use the Start menu to run SC/Gen and Social Networking.

The following sample files may be helpful:

• sample-roster.csv -- sample input roster file
• sample-JIFs.xls -- sample JIF file for generating reports
• sample-square-roster.csv -- sample square roster file generated to match the Publication Harvester sample input file. (We've included this to show you what a square roster file looks like. It won't be useful, though -- if you run this through the Social Networking program, you won't find any second-degree colleagues.)
• sample-input.xls -- sample input People file you can use with the Publication Harvester
• sample-colleagues.txt -- sample colleague file used by the Social Networking Report

This software is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

The Publication Harvester and SC/Gen projects are maintained by Andrew Stellman of Stellman & Greene Consulting. If you have questions, comments, patches, or bug reports, please contact pubharvester@stellman-greene.com.

• PublicationHarvester 1.1.0.5 -- 31-Aug-2019
  See GitHub release page for details
• SC/Gen v1.0.31 -- 28-Sep-2013
  Fixed bug where one of the reports was generated in the wrong folder
  Fixed minor bugs with handling empty publication lists
• SC/Gen v1.0.29 -- 02-Jul-2012
  Removed alternate people publications table from Star Colleagues report (because it's redundant with the FindRelated idea peer report), reduced memory usage for the Star Colleagues report
• SC/Gen v1.0.27 -- 09-Jun-2012
  Updated SC/Gen so "Remove False Colleagues" uses the alternate table name if the box is checked, added the Star Colleague Positions report to SC/Gen (including using an alternate table name), log files are written to %TMP%
• SC/Gen v1.0.26 and SocialNetworking v1.0.13 -- 13-May-2012
  Updated CREATE TABLE commands to use utf8 instead of latin1
• SC/Gen v1.0.25 and SocialNetworking 1.0.12 -- 10-Sep-2011
  Rebuilt against updated PubMed.dll for changes needed in FindRelated
• (unpublished version 1.0.24)
• SCGen v1.0.23 -- 13-Aug-2011
  Added label for colleague publications table
• SCGen v1.0.22 and SocialNetworking 1.0.11 -- 29-Aug-2010
  Fixed error due to permissions problem in settings
• SCGen v1.0.21 and SocialNetworking 1.0.10 -- 18-Aug-2010
  Rebuilt with .NET 4.0
SCGen v1.0.20 -- 20-Mar-2009
Fixed "Copy from Another Database" so that it only copies publications that match the specified publication types
• SCGen v1.0.18 and SocialNetworking 1.0.9 -- 13-Jan-2009
  Fixed memory issues that caused problems with large input files
• SCGen v1.0.17 and SocialNetworking 1.0.8 -- 08-Jan-2009
  Updated to support MySQL 5.1
• SCGen v1.0.16 and SocialNetworking 1.0.7 -- 01-Sep-2008
  Changed CSV reader to our own CSVReader
• SCGen v1.0.15 -- 15-May-2008
  SocialNetworking v1.0.6 -- 15-May-2008
  Made a small change to avoid out of memory exceptions on very large transition files
• v1.0.25 -- 15-May-2008
  Made a small change to avoid out of memory exceptions on very large transition files
• SocialNetworking 1.0.5 -- 2008-01-23
  Changed labels from "regular" and "square" to reflect first-degree and second-degree networks instead
• SocialNetworking 1.0.4 -- 2008-01-23
  Added fault-tolerance to the report generation so it can resume an interrupted run
• SocialNetworking 1.0.3 -- 2008-01-16
  Changed report so it's generated one colleague at a time, and added extra progress to the form
• SC/Gen v1.0.14 -- 2008-01-11
  Fixed minor typo on buttons
• SC/Gen v1.0.13 -- 2008-01-09
  Changed text for buttons 3 and 4
• SC/Gen v1.0.12 and Social Networking v1.0.2 -- 2007-12-19
  Rolled out initial website

We gratefully acknowledgement is given to the financial support of the National Science Foundation (Award SBE-0738142).