Articles with the scraping tag

Jan 27 · Data Posts

Retrieving your Google Scholar data

For my interactive CV I decided to try not only to automate the creation of a bibliography of my publications, but also to extend it with a citation count for each paper, which Google Scholar happens to keep track of. Unfortunately there is no Scholar API. But I figured since my own profile is based on data I essentially donated to Google, it is only fair that I can have access to it too. Hence I wrote a little scraper that iterates over the publications in my Scholar profile, extracts all citations, and bins them per year. That way I …