bibcites

Command-line utility which reads a BibTeX file, finds entries with a DOI, looks up the corresponding number of citations using OpenCitations, saves this number to the addendum field of each entry, and writes results to a new BibTex file.

Installation

python -m pip install bibcites should do the trick.

Usage

Usage: bibcites [OPTIONS] BIBFILE

  Reads a BibTeX file (BIBFILE), finds entries with a DOI, looks up the
  corresponding number of citations using OpenCitations
  (https://opencitations.net), saves this number to the 'addendum' field of
  each entry, and writes results to a new BibTex file.

  Optionally, using option -s, print out a list of entries with DOI sorted by
  number of citations.

Options:
  -o TEXT     output BibTex file
  -f TEXT     format of text to save to 'addendum' field
  -s          print list sorted by cites
  -v          enable verbose output
  -t TEXT     only process entries of this type (may be used several times to
              process several types)
  -n INTEGER  size limit for OpenCitations queries
  --help      Show this message and exit.

bibcites myfile.bib will read the contents of myfile.bib, look up all entries with a DOI field in OpenCitations, append “[X citations]” to the addendum field of each entry, and save the result to myfile_withcites.bib

• To get verbose output, use -v option.
• To set a custom file name for the output BibTeX file, use the -o <customfilename> option.
• To set a custom format to the addendum field, use the -f option, e.g., -f 'Cited {:s} times'. Use the {:s} specifier because the citation count is a string.
• To print out a list of processed entries, sorted by decreasing number of citations, use the -s option.
• To process only entries of certain types, use the -t option one or more times, e.g., -t article -t book.
• To limit the size of OpenCitations queries, use -n option (default is -n 50).

Contact

All questions and suggestions are welcome and should be directed at Mathieu Daëron.