get-citations

A script to scrap from Google Scholar the number of citations for each one of your publications, and generating a LaTeX command for each of them that you can later insert in your LaTeX publication list.

By default, for each publication it generates two LaTeX commands that expand either to the raw number of citations, or to a short text description with a link to the Google Scholar page listing all the corresponding papers that cite that work.

Installation

Install required libraries nltk and scholarly (note that the version in pip of scholarly doesn't work, so I am using an alternative source), as follows:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Then, download the stopwords corpus for nltk as follows:

python -c 'import nltk; nltk.download("stopwords")'

Usage

Simply run python get-citations.py <your_name> -o citations.tex and the citations.tex file will get populated with the following LaTeX commands:

• \cittotal expands to your total number of citations.
• \cithindex expands to your h-index.
• \cit<keyword> expands to the number of citations corresponding to the publication identified by keyword, which is the first content word in the title that has not been used before.
• \fullcit<keyword> expands to a rendered text corresponding to the publication identified by keyword. By default, this has the form "Cit. num_citations" and it's linked to the Google Scholar page that list all the papers citing this corresponding work.

To change how keywords are selected, you can change the get_publication_keyword function. To change the behaviour of the \fullcit<keyword> command you can modify the write_render_citations_command method.

Random

One immediately obvious modification of this script would allow to generate the publication list automatically. This was not my intention because I wanted to have some control on the formatting. However, if you are interested in having that behaviour, you are of course welcome to adapt it to your needs!