get_profile {scholar}

Gets profile information for a scholar

Description

Gets profile information for a researcher from Google Scholar. Each scholar profile page gives the researcher's name, affiliation, their homepage (if specified), and a summary of their key citation and publication availability metrics. The scholar ID can be found by searching Google Scholar at http://scholar.google.com.

Usage

get_profile(id)

Arguments

id

a character string specifying the Google Scholar ID. If multiple ids are specified, only the first value is used and a warning is generated. See the example below for how to profile multiple scholars.

Value

a list containing the scholar's name, affiliation, citations, impact and publication availability metrics, research interests, homepage and coauthors.

Metrics include:

• total_cites combined citations to all publications

• h_index the largest number h such that h publications each have at least h citations

• i10_index the number of publications that each have at least 10 citations

• available the number of publications that have a version online that can be read for free (though not necessarily reusable under an open access license)

• not_available the number of publications only available behind a paywall

Examples

{
   ## Gets profiles of some famous physicists
   ids <- c("xJaxiEEAAAAJ", "qj74uXkAAAAJ")
   profiles <- lapply(ids, get_profile)
}