citations_count_lib

Overview

citations-count is a Python library designed to fetch citation counts for academic publications from multiple sources, including CrossRef, OpenCitations, and Google Scholar.

This library provides a unified interface to retrieve citation counts using DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers).

Features

• Fetch citation counts from CrossRef, OpenCitations, and Google Scholar.
• Support for verbose logging to aid in debugging.
• Handles rate limiting by introducing delays between API calls.

Installation

To install the library, clone the repository and install the dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/ezefranca/citations_count_lib.git
cd citations_count_lib
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

from citations_count.core import fetch_multiple_citations

dois = [
    "10.1109/SeGAH.2017.7939283",
    "10.1109/SeGAH.2011.6165447",
    "10.3390/info16030246",
    "10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2"
]
results = fetch_multiple_citations(dois, delay=1.0, verbose=True)
for result in results:
    print(result)

Example output:

[
    {
        "doi": "10.1109/SeGAH.2017.7939283",
        "citations_crossref": 62,
        "citations_opencitations": 64,
        "citations_google_scholar": 160
    },
    {
        "doi": "10.1109/SeGAH.2011.6165447",
        "citations_crossref": 48,
        "citations_opencitations": 48,
        "citations_google_scholar": 116
    },
    {
        "doi": "10.3390/info16030246",
        "citations_crossref": 0,
        "citations_opencitations": 0,
        "citations_google_scholar": 0
    },
    {
        "doi": "10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2",
        "citations_crossref": 14710,
        "citations_opencitations": None,
        "citations_google_scholar": 22393
    }
]

Logging

Verbose logging can be enabled by setting the verbose parameter to True. This will print detailed logs for debugging purposes.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request for any improvements or bug fixes.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.