kavehbc / edu-stats

Edu-Stats is a parser to extract the scholar details of academicians such as h-index, citations, etc.

Edu-Stats

Official academic tracking platforms do not provide APIs to retrieve the relevant statistics such as h-Index, citations, etc. Edu-Stats is a parser to extract the scholar statistics and can be used/presented on other websites (e.g. the personal/academic websites). This API can be consumed as an embedded JavaScript, or retrieve the details in JSON format.

This is developed in multiple languages as below:

• php:
  • For more information, open the php folder. PHP version has a live demo.
• python:
  • This is developed as pip package and can be installed. For more information, check the python folder.

Supported Profiles

• Google Scholar: php, python
• Scopus: php
• Publons: php

Legal Disclaimer

The end-user of this code should read the terms and conditions of the host provider (e.g. Google Scholar, Scopus, etc.), which he/she is trying to scrap its data, and they should follow their terms and coditions. The developer(s) and contributor(s) of this code do(es) not take any resposibility for misusing this code. The end-users should monitor their requests to the servers in order to prevent any unnecessary traffic/attack on the target websites. Access to the hosted JavaScript on this website is restricted to prevent generation of high traffic on the target websites.

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Developer(s)

Kaveh Bakhtiyari - Website | Medium | LinkedIn | GitHub

Contribution

Feel free to join the open-source community and contribute to this repository.