I tried using pybliometrics to get info from Scopus on publications from my institution, but got different results from the AffiliationSearch and the AffiliationRetrieval.
I got the ID and other info with AffiliationSearch, including the number of documents:
[Affiliation(eid='10-s2.0-60092193', name='Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario', variant='Instituto De Biología Molecular Y Celular De Rosario', documents=1171, city='Rosario', country='Argentina', parent='0')]
Now, when I retrieve the affiliation info with AffiliationRetrieval, the number of documents appears to drop substantially from 1171 to 221
Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario in Rosario in Argentina, has 116 associated author(s) and 221 associated document(s) as of 2023-02-16
When I get to the Scopus Affiliation Link, obtained from the same AffiliationRetrieval object, the page informs again 1171 documents
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you in advance
This is mysterious. All APIs, incl. Scopus Search API, return the number 1171. Only Affiliation Retrieval API returns a different number.
I tried with my own institution (60105007). The number obtained from Affiliation Retrieval API differs from the other APIs, but it is a little higher.
This is in any case not a problem with your code or with pybliometrics. Maybe consult Sopus directly? Could be a mistake in the Affiliation Retrieval API.