Here is a small script to "scrape" your Google Scholar citations and reformat them (the way I need it for my website). Not super flexible - but should be easily customizable.
Some features:
- if registered on Crossref, retreives corresponding DOIs and can add altmetric.org links. If Crossref doesn't think your email is valid, no DOIs will be retreived.
- adds "Cited by N" for popular papers
- Configure "config.yaml" If you want DOI retreival to work (including Altmetrics), you need to be registered at crossref (its free).
- Run
bundle installthenbundle exec rubyscholar. (Note if this fails, you first need to dogem install bundler). I've only tested with ruby 1.9.3 - A publications.html file is created with your publications from google scholar.
- Thats it.
- uses author list as visible on your main Google Scholar page. Sometimes this means names are chopped in two or just a single author is missing. This could be made smarter (by following the link to get the full author list).
- output format could be more flexible. (e.g. change order (eg title before authors), or change formatting (e.g. remove first initial)). Perhaps this could be done with by providing a regexp search/replace configuration option within each field.
- Ensure that a true email is entered.
- right now only works from "user profile" pages. Not from "articles citing article" pages.
- flexible use of DOIs
Ruby, Nokogiri. Thanks to Google Scholar and Crossref. I hope none of this infringes on anything.
RubyScholar was developed by Yannick Wurm (http://yannick.poulet.org). Pull requests, patches and bug reports are welcome. The source code is available on github. Bug reports and feature requests may also be made there.
RubyScholar © 2013 by Yannick Wurm. Licensed under the MIT license.
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request