Package: scholar 1.0.0

Guangchuang Yu

scholar: Analyse Citation Data from Google Scholar

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.

Authors:Guangchuang Yu [aut, cre], James Keirstead [aut], Gregory Jefferis [aut], Gordon Getzinger [ctb], Jorge Cimentada [ctb], Max Czapanskiy [ctb], Dominique Makowski [ctb]

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scholar/json (API)

# Install 'scholar' in R:

install.packages('scholar', repos = c('https://yulab-smu.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/yulab-smu/scholar/issues

On CRAN:

quarto

10.56 score 52 stars 2 packages 562 scripts 2.9k downloads 3 mentions 30 exports 64 dependencies

Last updated from:818a83513a. Checks:4 ERROR, 5 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	ERROR	190
source / vignettes	OK	213
linux-release-x86_64	OK	150
macos-release-arm64	ERROR	217
macos-oldrel-arm64	ERROR	150
windows-devel	ERROR	168
windows-release	OK	114
windows-oldrel	OK	121
wasm-release	OK	168

Exports:author_position compare_scholar_careers compare_scholars format_publications get_article_cite_history get_article_scholar_url get_citation_history get_coauthors get_complete_authors get_journalrank get_num_articles get_num_distinct_journals get_num_top_journals get_oldest_article get_profile get_publication_abstract get_publication_data_extended get_publication_date get_publication_metrics get_publication_url get_publications get_publications_all_authors get_scholar_id get_scholar_metrics get_scholar_resp plot_coauthors predict_h_index search_scholar_ids set_scholar_mirror tidy_id

Dependencies:askpass base64enc cachem cli cpp11 curl digest dplyr farver fastmap generics ggforce ggplot2 ggraph ggrepel glue graphlayouts gridExtra gtable httr igraph isoband jsonlite labeling lattice lifecycle magrittr MASS Matrix memoise mime openssl pillar pkgconfig polyclip purrr R.cache R.methodsS3 R.oo R.utils R6 RColorBrewer Rcpp RcppArmadillo rlang rvest S7 scales selectr stringi stringr sys systemfonts tibble tidygraph tidyr tidyselect tweenr utf8 vctrs viridis viridisLite withr xml2

scholar introduction

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Last update: 2026-07-07
Started: 2026-07-07

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Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Get author order.	author_position
Compare the careers of multiple scholars	compare_scholar_careers
Compare the citation records of multiple scholars	compare_scholars
format_authors	format_authors
format_publications	format_publications
Gets the citation history of a single article	get_article_cite_history
Gets the URL to the google scholar website of an article.	get_article_scholar_url
Get historical citation data for a scholar	get_citation_history
Gets the network of coauthors of a scholar	get_coauthors
Get the Complete list of authors for a Publication	get_complete_authors
Get journal ranking.	get_journalrank
Calculates how many articles a scholar has published	get_num_articles
Gets the number of distinct journals in which a scholar has published	get_num_distinct_journals
Gets the number of top journals in which a scholar has published	get_num_top_journals
Gets the year of the oldest article for a scholar	get_oldest_article
Gets profile information for a scholar	get_profile
Gets the abstract for a publication id.	get_publication_abstract
Gets the full data for a publication	get_publication_data_extended
Gets the full date for a publication	get_publication_date
Calculate citation metrics from publication data	get_publication_metrics
Gets the PDF URL for a publication id.	get_publication_url
Gets the publications for a scholar	get_publications
Gets publications with complete author lists	get_publications_all_authors
Search for Google Scholar ID by name and affiliation	get_scholar_id
Calculate citation metrics for a scholar	get_scholar_metrics
Recursively try to GET a Google Scholar Page storing session cookies	get_scholar_resp
Plot a network of coauthors	plot_coauthors
Predicts the h-index for a researcher	predict_h_index
Search Google Scholar IDs by author name	search_scholar_ids
set_scholar_mirror	set_scholar_mirror