semanticscholar

A python library that aims to retrieve data from Semantic Scholar API.

How to install

pip install semanticscholar

Usage

Programmatically access paper and author data.

Paper Lookup

To access paper data:

>>> import semanticscholar as sch
>>> paper = sch.paper('10.1093/mind/lix.236.433', timeout=2)
>>> paper.keys()
dict_keys(['abstract', 'arxivId', 'authors', 'citationVelocity', 'citations', 'doi',
'influentialCitationCount', 'paperId', 'references', 'title', 'topics', 'url', 'venue', 'year'])
>>> paper['title']
'Computing Machinery and Intelligence'
>>> for author in paper['authors']:
...     print(author['name'])
...     print(author['authorId'])
...
Alan M. Turing
2262347

Author Lookup

To access author data:

>>> import semanticscholar as sch
>>> author = sch.author(2262347, timeout=2)
>>> author.keys()
dict_keys(['aliases', 'authorId', 'citationVelocity', 'influentialCitationCount', 'name', 'papers', 'url'])
>>> author['name']
'Alan M. Turing'
>>> len(author['papers'])
77