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How to find 5000+ authors using pybliometrics.scopus.AuthorSearch? #218

Closed Farbeyonder closed 2 years ago

Farbeyonder commented 2 years ago

1) How to find 5000+ authors using pybliometrics.scopus.AuthorSearch?

When I use query = f'AF-ID({XID})' to find all authors in an Affiliation, I get the following error: 

ScopusQueryError: Found 8953 matches. The query fails to return more than 5000 entries. Change your query such that it returns fewer entries.

2) If finding 5000+ authors is not possible, how can I find fewer entries (e.g. around 3000) by section (section 1, 2, 3) so I can piece the 3 sections together for all authors in an Affiliation?

Michael-E-Rose commented 2 years ago

This question would have found a better place on StackOverflow.

But here is the answer anyways: You need to make the query more fine-grained within a mutually exclusive loop: AF-ID(1234567) AND AU-ID(1*), where you you replace 1 with 2 in the next run, and so on.