An R function to analyze your Google Scholar Citations page
From the post:
Google scholar has now made Google Scholar Citations profiles available to anyone. You can read about these profiles and set one up for yourself here.
I asked John Muschelli and Andrew Jaffe to write me a function that would download my Google Scholar Citations data so I could play with it. Then they got all crazy on it and wrote a couple of really neat functions. All cool/interesting components of these functions are their ideas and any bugs were introduced by me when I was trying to fiddle with the code at the end.
Features include:
The function will download all of Rafa’s citation data and put it in the matrix out. It will also make wordclouds of (a) the co-authors on his papers and (b) the titles of his papers and save them in the pdf file specified (There is an option to turn off plotting if you want).
It can also calculate citation indices.
Scholars are fairly peripatetic these days and so have webpages, projects, courses, not to mention social media postings using various university identities. A topic map would be a nice complement to this function to gather up the “grey” literature that underlies final publications.
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