Citation Metrics Scraper

This Python program allows you to retrieve and compile the h-index of researchers from given universities.

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Installation
• Usage
• Example
• License

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• pandas library
• scholarly library

You can install the required libraries using pip:

pip install pandas scholarly

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/ezekielulrich/metricscraper.git

2. Navigate to the project directory:

cd metricscraper

Usage

1. Run the program:

python main.py

The program will search Google Scholar for authors from each university whose interests are associated with manufacturing and retrieve their corresponding h-index and citation count. These results are compiled into a .csv file and can be visualized as a box plot by running

python graph.py

Example

python main.py

Output:

Running...
...
{'Author': 'A. John Hart', 'Affiliation': 'MIT', 'Citations': 23499, 'H-index': 72}
Searching for information on Aaron Stebner
{'Author': 'Aaron Stebner', 'Affiliation': 'Georgia Tech', 'Citations': 2520, 'H-index': 26}
Searching for information on Adrian Lew
{'Author': 'Adrian Lew', 'Affiliation': 'Stanford', 'Citations': 3330, 'H-index': 28}
...
Saved to .csv file

License

MIT License