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scholar (version 1.0.0)

Analyse Citation Data from Google Scholar

Description

Provides tools to retrieve, analyse, and format publication and citation data from Google Scholar profiles. It supports profile lookup, publication records, citation histories, scholar comparison, coauthor networks, journal ranking queries, CV-ready publication lists, and citation metric summaries.

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install.packages('scholar')

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1.0.0

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MIT + file LICENSE

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Repository

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

Maintainer

Guangchuang Yu

Last Published

July 7th, 2026

Functions in scholar (1.0.0)

get_citation_history

Get historical citation data for a scholar

author_position

Get author order.

format_publications

format_publications

get_complete_authors

Get the Complete list of authors for a Publication

get_article_cite_history

Gets the citation history of a single article

get_article_scholar_url

Gets the URL to the google scholar website of an article.

compare_scholars

Compare the citation records of multiple scholars

compare_scholar_careers

Compare the careers of multiple scholars

Gets the network of coauthors of a scholar

get_num_distinct_journals

Gets the number of distinct journals in which a scholar has published

get_num_top_journals

Gets the number of top journals in which a scholar has published

Gets profile information for a scholar

get_oldest_article

Gets the year of the oldest article for a scholar

get_publication_date

Gets the full date for a publication

get_scholar_metrics

Calculate citation metrics for a scholar

get_publication_metrics

Calculate citation metrics from publication data

search_scholar_ids

Search Google Scholar IDs by author name

get_publication_url

Gets the PDF URL for a publication id.

get_scholar_resp

Recursively try to GET a Google Scholar Page storing session cookies

get_journalrank

Get journal ranking.

get_num_articles

Calculates how many articles a scholar has published

scholar-package

set_scholar_mirror

set_scholar_mirror

get_publication_abstract

Gets the abstract for a publication id.

get_publications_all_authors

Gets publications with complete author lists

Search for Google Scholar ID by name and affiliation

Ensures that specified IDs are correctly formatted

get_publications

Gets the publications for a scholar

predict_h_index

Predicts the h-index for a researcher

get_publication_data_extended

Gets the full data for a publication

Plot a network of coauthors