Please add Google Scholar to the API, including # of citations and BibTex reference.

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This is a feature request.

Please add Google Scholar to the API. That in itself would be great. But I
think fantastic tools can be made if the search result also includes the
information currently presented on Google Scholar. In particular

1) The number of citations (and links to them)
2) BibTex reference entry
3) Information whether the paper/content is available as HTML. (And even
better if it is under a Free license.)

Thanks
Anders

Original issue reported on code.google.com by anders.n...@gmail.com on 16 Sep 2008 at 8:15

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Original comment by jrgeer...@gmail.com on 16 Sep 2008 at 12:23

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Original comment by jrgeer...@gmail.com on 16 Sep 2008 at 8:27

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I would add my vote for this feature. Recommendation engines for academic 
articles
would work a lot better with an easy to access citation database. 

Original comment by pedrobel...@gmail.com on 17 Sep 2008 at 8:23

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++ for this, Anders points are all great

Original comment by dan.s...@gmail.com on 17 Sep 2008 at 9:25

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I add my vote to this

Original comment by paolo.ma...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2008 at 7:02

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You certainly have my vote on that one too! 

Original comment by fyf...@gmail.com on 25 Sep 2008 at 2:45

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Please do!

Original comment by keith.ohara@gmail.com on 25 Sep 2008 at 3:22

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I strongly support this one!

Original comment by haobi...@gmail.com on 25 Sep 2008 at 8:35

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yes please

Original comment by shyN...@gmail.com on 25 Sep 2008 at 8:41

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I beg of you!

Original comment by Londo...@gmail.com on 7 Oct 2008 at 7:03

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I also vote for this one.

Original comment by ahnj...@gmail.com on 7 Oct 2008 at 11:52

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+1 for this feature

Original comment by plindenb...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2008 at 7:03

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Ditto.

Original comment by osh...@gmail.com on 16 Oct 2008 at 5:21

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+1

Original comment by antonov1...@gmail.com on 18 Oct 2008 at 11:55

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agree, would open up some new opportunities

please include wrapper for .Net c# if possible

Original comment by martinta...@gmail.com on 22 Oct 2008 at 4:30

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Ditto. 

Original comment by samg...@gmail.com on 24 Oct 2008 at 9:05

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Yes please!

Original comment by javaja...@gmail.com on 27 Oct 2008 at 8:34

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+1

Original comment by svire-ch...@yahoo.com on 31 Oct 2008 at 10:43

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+1
+.Net C# wrapper

Original comment by rpz...@gmail.com on 31 Oct 2008 at 9:37

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I strongly support this one!-2

Original comment by boxer...@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2008 at 5:02

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I would find this most useful being a University student.

Original comment by navarre....@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2008 at 9:42

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another vote

Original comment by alberto....@gmail.com on 7 Nov 2008 at 11:18

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+1

Original comment by pavel...@gmail.com on 7 Nov 2008 at 3:39

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From this information it would be possible to create a desktop application 
visualising the relationships between 
papers and enabling that information to be navigated dynamically. Something 
similar to Web of Science's maps of 
paper references but less cumbersome. This would be beneficial to researchers 
like myself, making it easier to 
keep up with the latest research.

Anyway, this request gets my vote.

Original comment by graham.dennis@gmail.com on 12 Nov 2008 at 12:35

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I would also make use of a Google Scholar API.

Original comment by cjau...@gmail.com on 28 Nov 2008 at 9:14

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YES!

Original comment by d...@criticalmath.com on 29 Nov 2008 at 3:59

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Another vote

Original comment by craiglof...@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2008 at 11:12

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+1

Original comment by Benjamin...@gmail.com on 2 Dec 2008 at 8:48

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+1

Original comment by qingping...@gmail.com on 3 Dec 2008 at 5:26

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Hey guys --

This is a really interesting suggestion.  Could some of you elaborate on the 
use cases for a Scholar API?  What 
kinds of applications would you make with it?  The more the better :)

Thanks,
Ben Lisbakken

Original comment by lisba...@google.com on 5 Dec 2008 at 11:23

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Another vote from me.

Applications - the obvious one would be integration with Google Docs, allowing
citations to be inserted and a bibliography to be formatted.

Original comment by neil...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2008 at 4:04

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@ben - we have a related friendfeed discussion on this

http://friendfeed.com/e/e50430e2-9304-4022-a035-fb83f966f830/How-would-you-use-a
-Google-Scholar-API/

Original comment by dan.s...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2008 at 6:00

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Yes please!

Re: use cases - I'm sure many scholars would like to be able to automatically 
import
citation metrics (# citations, what those citations are) for a given doi.

Original comment by hilary.s...@gmail.com on 8 Dec 2008 at 1:51

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+1 to this...

Use cases: 
* Ego-searching.  How many times have my articles been cited (lets face it, we 
all
want to know this in real time :) )

* Universal reference format translator.  EG, I have a list of references 
(1..N) in
APA...reformat it for me into IEEE.  Even better, I'm resubmitting a paper to a
different journal that requires a different reference format.  The API would 
take the
entire paper as input, and translate citations and references into the new 
format

* +1 to integrating with GDocs.  We use GDocs quite a bit to write collaborative
papers in my lab. 

Applications
* I'm writing a research lab intranet type social media site.  I wanted to add 
the
ability to post citations/articles read, tagging, commenting, bookmarking, etc. 
 One
challenge I had was how to link to the article...how to deal with DOI's, access
rights, etc.  An GScholar API would be one solutions...effectively outsourcing 
all
the access issues to Google (at the cost of an extra click for my users, but if 
it
takes them right to the article they want, fine.)

* I could also imagine a firefox plugin that scans a page for citation 
information
(via regex, or some embedded semantics) and automagically links it to GScholar.

* This should also play nicely with Zotero (http://www.zotero.org), espeically 
as
they are coming out with a server sync version.  I imagine they would be a major
player, and would really make open-citation-software to the next level.

Original comment by fitzgera...@gmail.com on 8 Dec 2008 at 2:40

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+1 for an API!

I'm programming for an ejournal, and it would be a plus for readers and authors 
to
get the number of citations as well as the citating sources for each article.

Original comment by bunke.he...@gmail.com on 11 Dec 2008 at 10:05

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+1 for APIs.

Uses?
1. Citation counting is one
2. Another would be integration with a library ("see references that cite this 
book")
3. Bibliometric citation studies, i.e. research on academia (such as cliques of
scientists)

+1 for reference list (backward citation tracing)
Note that the paid journal databases (like Wiley) now are allowing you to look 
at the
references in an article and then bring up any of the cited articles. So the 
forward
citations is fun but it's really helpful to be able to go backwards.

Original comment by openitst...@gmail.com on 13 Dec 2008 at 12:30

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Another vote for a Google Scholar API

Original comment by jaredhow...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2008 at 5:24

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This would be a super-cool API; I'm sure the academic community would create 
lots of
interesting and creative apps with this.

Original comment by bradneub...@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2008 at 9:23

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This would be an excellent gift for scientic community. Please consider adding
Scholar API ASAP.

Original comment by blek.n...@gmail.com on 2 Jan 2009 at 6:32

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Re: use cases- cf. EndNote, BibDesk, Papers, etc. etc. etc.- currently, any 
citation
management program that wants to import data from Google Scholar must do so via
screen-scraping. The developers of these apps would have much easier lives if 
there
was a formal Google Scholar API.

Original comment by steven.bedrick@gmail.com on 2 Jan 2009 at 7:30

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A google scholar API would be tremendous.
Some potential benefits/use cases:

1)  adding cited-by links to a variety of services: online journals, 
institutional
repositories, individual researcher sites.
2)  cited-by links to GS will provide a valuable, complementary and free 
alternative
to the existing commercial services (Scopus, Web of Science)
3)  the current primary indicator of 'article impact' is the name of the 
journal in
which the article is published.  Freely accessible cited-by metrics (along with 
other
article metrics) will provide a valuable alternative indicator of 'impact' at 
the
individual article level (useful for funders, institutions, researchers etc).
4)  calculations based on GS citation metrics could provide alternative 
approaches to
journal impact measures

Original comment by markpatt...@googlemail.com on 5 Jan 2009 at 11:19

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I think the most important usecases have been covered by others. But just to 
recap,
my personal motivations for asking were

1) Live citation count (and cited by lists) on publication lists.
2) Live "cited by" lists in my favorite open access journals (eg. PLoS Comp 
Biol) -
where the "this content is actually available to everyone" info also would be 
great.
3) Better ways to lookup bibliographic information for apps like Mendeley and
Paperbox ( http://live.gnome.org/PaperBox )

Best
Anders

Original comment by anders.n...@gmail.com on 5 Jan 2009 at 12:03

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Just a note- in order for any kind of "live citation count" to be meaningful, 
we'd
need to know a lot more about how Google Scholar extracts and calculates 
citation
information. The ISI citation count is generated using a known methodology; as 
far as
I know, the details of Google Scholar's methodology is known only to Googlers.

Original comment by steven.bedrick@gmail.com on 5 Jan 2009 at 3:47

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Well, when I do a search on Google Scholar, I see the link "Cited by X" next to 
the
results, and if I click on it I am taken to a page with X links, right? I think 
that
is good enough for me, if I could get that information in a nice API.

Original comment by anders.n...@gmail.com on 5 Jan 2009 at 3:55

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+1 It would be great to have this API and if support for GWT is given that 
would be
excellent. Thanks for all the great work.

Original comment by camig...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2009 at 12:37

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I'm building a Facebook app that allows researchers to collect, annotate, and 
share their documents (dtext2.org).  
The Amazon Web Services API offers lots of useful metadata on books, but a 
Google Scholar API would be 
excellent for getting metrics and metadata on scholarly sources.  

API would return:
- title
- authors, affiliations
- source (conference, collection)
- pages
- citations (cited by)
- url

Original comment by johnny.r...@gmail.com on 27 Jan 2009 at 12:39

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I am also building an inter-lab collaboration site and would find this 
incredibly useful.

Original comment by wallofin...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2009 at 10:26

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I vote yes.  It would be awesome!!!  What's the hold up?

Original comment by jackstra...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2009 at 10:14

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Specifically, I think 'cited by' would be particularly useful.

Original comment by wallofin...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2009 at 6:36