Ensure a single, clean scholar ID.

Fetch URL and return a BeautifulSoup tree.

Get profile information for a Google Scholar researcher. Returns a dict with: id, name, affiliation, total_cites, h_index, i10_index, fi

Get all publications for a scholar. Returns a DataFrame with columns: title, author, journal, number, cites, year, cid, pubid.

Fetch the detail page for a single publication.

Extract the scholar ID from a URL.

List coauthors shown on a scholar's profile page.

Return number of publications in top journals. Default journal list follows Acuna et al. (Nature, Science, Nature Neuroscience, PNAS, Ne

GET a Google Scholar page with retries and rate-limit detection.

Return a shared requests session (cookie persistence).

Get annual citation counts for a scholar (past ~12 years). Returns DataFrame with columns: year, cites.

Return the number of publications for a scholar.

Return the number of distinct journals a scholar has published in.

Return the year of the oldest publication.

Find the position of an author in each publication's author list. Parameters ---------- author_lists : list of str — e.g. from get_p

Compare citation careers of multiple scholars. If career=True, adds a career_year column relative to first citation year. Returns DataFr

Compare citation records of multiple scholars. Returns DataFrame with: id, name, year, cites, total (cumulative).

Get yearly citation history for a single article. Returns DataFrame with columns: year, cites, pubid.

Return the Google Scholar URL for an article's detail page.

Get a network of co-authors. Parameters ---------- scholar_id : str n_coauthors : int — how many coauthors to fetch per level

Get the complete author list for one or more publications. Parameters ---------- scholar_id : str pubid : str or list of str

Stub: The R package uses a bundled dataset for impact factor lookup. This Python version returns a placeholder DataFrame. For real data,

Stub: The R package uses a bundled dataset for journal ranking lookup. See get_impactfactor() note.

Return the abstract text for a publication.

Return all metadata fields for a publication as a dict.

Return the publication date string.

Return the URL to the full publication.

Search for a Google Scholar ID by name (and optional affiliation). Returns the scholar ID string, or None if not found.

Plot a co-author network graph. Requires: pip install networkx matplotlib

Predict future h-index using Acuna et al. (Nature 489, 201-202, 2012). Calibrated on neuroscience data — use with caution for other fields.

Print a formatted summary of a scholar's profile.

Set a Google Scholar mirror URL.