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Analyse Citation Data from Google Scholar

v0.2.6 · Feb 26, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Provides functions to extract citation data from Google Scholar. Convenience functions are also provided for comparing multiple scholars and predicting future h-index values.

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OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 9, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026
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See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
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Code

Structure

Lines of code

2,759

Files

57

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 1,675 (60.7%)Tests 90 (3.3%)Docs 811 (29.4%)Vignettes 183 (6.6%)

API

Exported functions

26

Internal functions

9

Recent export changes

v0.2.4+5 get_article_scholar_url, get_publication_abstract, get_publication_data_extended +2 more
v0.2.3+1 format_publications  −1 get_impactfactor

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.05

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

84.6%

\dontrun example ratio

60%

Roxygen coverage

100%

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

Yes

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

0%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

4.1.0

System requirements

C++ standard

License

MIT + file LICENSE

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

14

First release

2013-10-22

Latest release

2026-02-26

Avg cadence

245 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

10

LOC over versions

v0.1.0: 711 LOCv0.1.1: 734 LOCv0.1.2: 766 LOCv0.1.3: 866 LOCv0.1.4: 904 LOCv0.1.6: 1,053 LOCv0.1.7: 1,523 LOCv0.2.0: 2,119 LOCv0.2.1: 2,119 LOCv0.2.2: 2,168 LOCv0.2.3: 2,259 LOCv0.2.4: 2,643 LOCv0.2.5: 2,722 LOCv0.2.6: 2,759 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.

Reverse Dependencies (3)

imports

suggests

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies R.cache dplyr httr rlang rvest stringr xml2 tidygraph ggraph ggplot2 CoTiMA margaret easystats scholar

Version History

15 tracked
new 0.2.6 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.2.6 ← 0.2.5 diff Feb 25, 2026
updated 0.2.5 ← 0.2.4 diff Jun 25, 2025
updated 0.2.4 ← 0.2.3 diff Aug 8, 2022
updated 0.2.3 ← 0.2.2 diff Jun 22, 2022
updated 0.2.2 ← 0.2.1 diff Jul 12, 2021
updated 0.2.1 ← 0.2.0 diff Apr 27, 2021
updated 0.2.0 ← 0.1.7 diff Jan 11, 2021
updated 0.1.7 ← 0.1.6 diff Jul 2, 2018
updated 0.1.6 ← 0.1.4 diff May 22, 2018
updated 0.1.4 ← 0.1.3 diff Nov 20, 2015
updated 0.1.3 ← 0.1.2 diff Sep 28, 2015
updated 0.1.2 ← 0.1.1 diff Aug 21, 2014
updated 0.1.1 ← 0.1.0 diff Oct 27, 2013
new 0.1.0 Oct 21, 2013