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scholar (version 0.2.5)

Analyse Citation Data from Google Scholar

Description

Provides functions to extract citation data from Google Scholar. Convenience functions are also provided for comparing multiple scholars and predicting future h-index values.

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install.packages('scholar')

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0.2.5

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MIT + file LICENSE

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Maintainer

Guangchuang Yu

Last Published

June 26th, 2025

Functions in scholar (0.2.5)

get_journalrank

Get journal ranking.
scholar-package

scholar
get_profile

Gets profile information for a scholar
format_authors

format_authors
get_publication_data_extended

Gets the full data for a publication
get_num_articles

Calculates how many articles a scholar has published
get_publication_date

Gets the full date for a publication
get_publication_url

Gets the PDF URL for a publication id.
set_scholar_mirror

set_scholar_mirror
get_num_top_journals

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

Gets the publications for a scholar
get_scholar_resp

Recursively try to GET a Google Scholar Page storing session cookies
plot_coauthors

Plot a network of coauthors
tidy_id

Ensures that specified IDs are correctly formatted
get_scholar_id

Search for Google Scholar ID by name and affiliation
get_num_distinct_journals

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

Get the Complete list of authors for a Publication
get_article_scholar_url

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

Gets the citation history of a single article
format_publications

format_publications
get_coauthors

Gets the network of coauthors of a scholar
compare_scholars

Compare the citation records of multiple scholars
get_citation_history

Get historical citation data for a scholar
get_publication_abstract

Gets the abstract for a publication id.
get_oldest_article

Gets the year of the oldest article for a scholar
predict_h_index

Predicts the h-index for a researcher
author_position

Get author order.
compare_scholar_careers

Compare the careers of multiple scholars