Dear R users,

A new package 'scholar' (version 0.1.0) is now available on CRAN: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/scholar/index.html.

The scholar package provides functions to extract citation data from Google Scholar. In addition to retrieving basic information about a single scholar, the package also allows you to compare multiple scholars and predict future h-index values based on the method of Acuna et al. For example, we can compare the careers of Richard Feynman and Stephen Hawking as follows:

   ids <- c('B7vSqZsAAAAJ', 'qj74uXkAAAAJ')
   df <- compare_scholar_careers(ids)
   ggplot(df, aes(x=career_year, y=cites)) + geom_line(aes(linetype=name))

For more information and examples of how to use the package, please see https://github.com/jkeirstead/scholar.

Your comments and suggestions would be appreciated.

Best wishes,
James

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Dr James Keirstead
Lecturer
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Imperial College
South Kensington, London
SW7 2AZ

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