get_profile | R Documentation |
Gets profile information for a researcher from Google Scholar. Each scholar profile page gives the researcher's name, affiliation, their homepage (if specified), and a summary of their key citation and publication availability metrics. The scholar ID can be found by searching Google Scholar at http://scholar.google.com.
get_profile(id)
id |
a character string specifying the Google Scholar ID. If multiple ids are specified, only the first value is used and a warning is generated. See the example below for how to profile multiple scholars. |
a list containing the scholar's name, affiliation, citations, impact and publication availability metrics, research interests, homepage and coauthors.
Metrics include:
total_cites combined citations to all publications
h_index the largest number h such that h publications each have at least h citations
i10_index the number of publications that each have at least 10 citations
available the number of publications that have a version online that can be read for free (though not necessarily reusable under an open access license)
not_available the number of publications only available behind a paywall
{ ## Gets profiles of some famous physicists ids <- c("xJaxiEEAAAAJ", "qj74uXkAAAAJ") profiles <- lapply(ids, get_profile) }
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