scholar-package: scholar

In scholar: Analyse Citation Data from Google Scholar

scholar

Description

The scholar package provides functions to extract citation data from Google Scholar. There are also convenience functions for comparing multiple scholars and predicting h-index scores based on past publication records.

Google Scholar cookies

Google does not encourage people to use the scholar website as an API. You will find a number of issues related to this if you follow: https://github.com/jkeirstead/scholar/issues?q=is:issue+cookie

If you try to fetch too many pages, you can expect to see your access to scholar blocked. One step that they do take is to provide a session cookie. Reusing these seems to help. If you wish to write your own code to interact with Google Scholar, we recommend that you use the get_scholar_resp function to carry out the query.

Note

A complementary set of Google Scholar functions can be found at https://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~jleek/code/googleCite.r. The scholar package was developed independently.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Guangchuang Yu [e-mail] (ORCID)

Authors:

• James Keirstead [e-mail]

• Gregory Jefferis [e-mail] (ORCID)

Other contributors:

• Gordon Getzinger [contributor]

• Jorge Cimentada [e-mail] [contributor]

• Max Czapanskiy [e-mail] [contributor]

• Dominique Makowski [e-mail] [contributor]

Source

The package reads data from https://scholar.google.com. Dates and citation counts are estimated and are determined automatically by a computer program. Use at your own risk.

See Also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/YuLab-SMU/scholar

• Report bugs at https://github.com/YuLab-SMU/scholar/issues

scholar documentation built on Aug. 9, 2022, 9:06 a.m.