Citationgraph

Installation

Install conda from https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/install/index.html if you haven’t installed it already.

Make a new conda environment that uses python 3.5 with the required dependencies using:

conda env create --file citation_graph_env.yml

You can activate this environment with:

activate citationgraph

or

source activate citationgraph

depending on your OS.

Dependencies

• python 3
  • beautifulsoup4
  • requests
  • lxml
  • unidecode

Usage

The included python script can be used to convert paper's IDs (from PubMed, PubMed Central & DOIs) and fetch the following information for a given ID:

1. Papers citing and cited by our paper of interest
2. Article metadata available through NCBI's esummary can be of use

See CitationGraph.py for an example on how to use the script.

R Google Scholar package

Maybe this can be of use in your project as well!

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/scholar/vignettes/scholar.html