/histocit

Track number of citations on Google Scholar

Primary LanguagePython

histocit

Get the history of the number of citations an author has over the years.

Requirements

  • Python >= 3.6
  • requests and beautifulsoup4

Install using pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

python histocit.py "Author Name"

Author name should be in quotes.

Programmatic usage

The citation_history function takes an author name and returns a dict of year: ncit.

from histocit import citation_history
print(citation_history("Author Name"))