Dear R users,
A new package 'scholar' (version 0.1.0) is now available on CRAN:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/scholar/index.html.
The scholar package provides functions to extract citation data from
Google Scholar. In addition to retrieving basic information about a
single scholar, the package also allows you to compare multiple scholars
and predict future h-index values based on the method of Acuna et al.
For example, we can compare the careers of Richard Feynman and Stephen
Hawking as follows:
ids <- c('B7vSqZsAAAAJ', 'qj74uXkAAAAJ')
df <- compare_scholar_careers(ids)
ggplot(df, aes(x=career_year, y=cites)) + geom_line(aes(linetype=name))
For more information and examples of how to use the package, please see
https://github.com/jkeirstead/scholar.
Your comments and suggestions would be appreciated.
Best wishes,
James
--
Dr James Keirstead
Lecturer
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Imperial College
South Kensington, London
SW7 2AZ
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