Nov 2023 – Feb 2024
Google Scholar Research Automation
An economics paper had a deadline that wasn't moving and a mountain of citation data to collect by hand. I wrote the script instead. The paper made its deadline.
Stack
Python, BeautifulSoup, pandas, Automation
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Notes
It searches by paper and author metadata, pulls out profiles and publication records, works out citation windows, and hands back a spreadsheet ready for the paper rather than a pile of browser tabs.
The numbers
- Use
- Collected author, publication, and citation data and exported research-ready spreadsheets.
- Impact
- Replaced manual collection and saved about 520 hours against a tight publication deadline.