Google Scholar Citations
Want to know who/which journal has cited your work and compile a list?
This program allows you to retrieve all the citations an author has garnered from other scholars via Google Scholar, to store them in a bib file, and optionally, to download the publicly available PDF files associated with those citations.
Prerequisite
- Python 2.7.9+ or Python 3
- Latex if you need to produce a final PDF report
Download
To download, either directly download the zip file, or clone the git repository via command line with:
$ git clone https://github.com/shiqiezi/google-scholar-citationsBasic Usage
Basic command line operation is needed. A very basic usage with defaults will be:
$ python main.py https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lqyGZpQAAAAJMore Options
$ python main.py [-h] [--request-interval REQUEST_INTERVAL] [--should-download]
[--download-dir DOWNLOAD_DIR] [--citation-name CITATION_NAME]
google_scholar_urioptional arguments explained:
--request-interval REQUEST_INTERVAL
# Interval (in seconds) between requests to google scholar
--should-download # Download PS/PDF files of all citations iff True
--download-dir DOWNLOAD_DIR
# Directory for downloaded citations PDF files
--citation-name CITATION_NAME
# File name for all your citations in BibTex formatpositional argument:
google_scholar_uri # Your google scholar homepage###Example
$ python main.py --request-interval=50 --should-download https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lqyGZpQAAAAJGetting Help
$ python main.py -h # show this help message and exitAvoid Too Many Requests
Crawl the web resposibly. We suggest that users set a large number for the --request-interval. Requesting too frequently may result in a block from Google.
History
18-Sep-2016: Enabled a number of command line options, updated README