NEWS

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scholar 1.0.0

• convert the package vignette from R Markdown to Quarto and expand the feature overview (2026-07-07, Tue)
• fix author_position() normalized-position typo for missing author positions (2026-07-07, Tue, #105)
• retry transient Google Scholar 404 responses before returning unavailable data (2026-07-07, Tue, #108)
• fix get_complete_authors() URL construction and tolerate Scholar IDs with trailing query parameters (2026-07-07, Tue, #117)
• use Google Scholar's full colleagues list when retrieving coauthors to avoid the profile sidebar limit (2026-07-07, Tue, #120)
• add get_publications_all_authors() to fill truncated publication author lists only when needed (2026-07-07, Tue, #122)
• add search_scholar_ids() to return all author IDs from paginated Google Scholar author search results (2026-07-07, Tue, #88)
• add get_publication_metrics() and get_scholar_metrics() for h-index, g-index, i10, i50, and i100 metrics (2026-07-07, Tue)
• make citation history parsing tolerate mismatched Google Scholar chart labels and values (2026-07-07, Tue)
• make predict_h_index() return NA instead of erroring when publication metrics are unavailable (2026-07-07, Tue)
• improve publication citation count parsing for formatted or struck-through Google Scholar values (2026-07-07, Tue)
• restore get_journalrank() with browser-like SCImago CSV download to avoid HTTP 403 errors (2026-07-07, Tue)
• fix Google Scholar HTML encoding conversion to avoid example failures when pages contain Latin-1 characters (2026-07-07, Tue)

scholar 0.2.6 (2026-02-26)

• fix get_publications(sortby='year') issue (2026-02-26, Thu, #5)
• enhance get_scholar_id search with multiple mauthors query variants (2026-02-26, Thu)
• fix get_scholar_id to robustly parse author search results (2026-02-26, Thu, #4)
• fix get_scholar_id query encoding to use '+' for spaces and '%22' for quotes (2026-02-26, Thu)
• add fallback parsing for user%3D and JSON/data-user formats; improve messages (2026-02-26, Thu)
• updated scholar IDs in compare_scholars examples and vignette to fix R check warnings (2026-02-21, Sat)

scholar 0.2.5 (2025-06-26)

• bug fixed in format_publications() and fixed R check (2025-06-21, Sat)
• bug fixed in predict_h_index() (2024-01-3, Wed)
• update vignette and readme with format_publications() function (2022-08-09, Tue, @rempsyc, #1)

scholar 0.2.4 (2022-08-09)

• get_article_scholar_url(), get_publication_abstract(), get_publication_data_extended(), get_publication_date() and get_publication_url() (2022-08-01, Mon, #113)
• fixed bug in parsing ID with '-' character in get_scholar_id() (2022-07-26, Tue)
• fixed duplicated profiles and update regexpr to extract ID in get_scholar_id() (2022-06-25, Sat, #111, #112)

scholar 0.2.3 (2022-06-23)

• format_publications to format publication list (2022-06-21, Tue)
  • https://github.com/jkeirstead/scholar/issues/110
• update journal ranking data
• remove get_impactfactor
• fixed when some years contain 0 cites (@jefferis, #101)
• update documents (@jefferis, #100)

scholar 0.2.2 (2021-07-13)

• return NULL if fail to access data (follow CRAN policy)
• restore pubid (@conig, #97)
• extending get_profile(id) to include professional interests (@TS404, #95)
• allow n_deep = 0, for immediate author network (#timonelmer, #90)

scholar 0.2.0 (2021-01-12)

• set_scholar_mirror to allow user to set a google scholar mirror (2021-01-04)