scholar: Analyse Citation Data from Google Scholar

Provides tools to retrieve, analyse, and format publication and citation data from Google Scholar profiles. It supports profile lookup, publication records, citation histories, scholar comparison, coauthor networks, journal ranking queries, CV-ready publication lists, and citation metric summaries.

Version: 1.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: R.cache, dplyr, httr, rlang, rvest, stringr, xml2, tidygraph, ggraph, ggplot2
Suggests: knitr, quarto, rmarkdown, roxygen2, spelling, testthat (≥ 2.1.0), yulab.utils
Published: 2026-07-07
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.scholar
Author: Guangchuang Yu ORCID iD [aut, cre], James Keirstead [aut], Gregory Jefferis ORCID iD [aut], Gordon Getzinger [ctb], Jorge Cimentada [ctb], Max Czapanskiy [ctb], Dominique Makowski [ctb]
Maintainer: Guangchuang Yu <guangchuangyu at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/YuLab-SMU/scholar/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/YuLab-SMU/scholar
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Citation: scholar citation info
Materials: NEWS
In views: WebTechnologies
CRAN checks: scholar results

Documentation:

Reference manual: scholar.html , scholar.pdf
Vignettes: scholar introduction (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: scholar_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: scholar_1.0.0.zip, r-release: scholar_0.2.6.zip, r-oldrel: scholar_1.0.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): scholar_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): scholar_1.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): scholar_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): scholar_1.0.0.tgz
Old sources: scholar archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: CoTiMA, margaret
Reverse suggests: easystats

Linking:

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