citations-count
citations_count is a Python library designed to fetch citation counts for academic publications from multiple sources, including CrossRef, OpenCitations, and Google Scholar.
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Repository
citations_count is a Python library designed to fetch citation counts for academic publications from multiple sources, including CrossRef, OpenCitations, and Google Scholar.
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: ezefranca
- License: mit
- Language: Python
- Default Branch: main
- Size: 301 KB
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- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
- Releases: 1
Metadata Files
README.md
citationscountlib 
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).
Check the example on Google Colab.
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:
bash
git clone https://github.com/ezefranca/citations_count_lib.git
cd citations_count_lib
pip install -r requirements.txt
Usage
```python from citationscount.core import fetchmultiple_citations
dois = [ "10.1109/SeGAH.2017.7939283", "10.1109/SeGAH.2011.6165447", "10.3390/info16030246", "10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2" ] results = fetchmultiplecitations(dois, delay=1.0, verbose=True) for result in results: print(result) ```
Example output:
json
[
{
"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.
Citation
bibtex
@software{Santos_citations_count_is_a_2025,
title = {{citations\_count is a Python library designed to fetch citation counts for academic publications from multiple sources, including CrossRef, OpenCitations, and Google Scholar.}},
author = {Santos, Ezequiel},
year = 2025,
month = {mar},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.15079456},
url = {https://github.com/ezefranca/citations_count_lib},
license = {MIT},
version = {1.0.0}
}
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.
Owner
- Name: Ezequiel Santos
- Login: ezefranca
- Kind: user
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
- Company: @miniclip
- Website: ezefranca.com
- Twitter: ezefranca
- Repositories: 709
- Profile: https://github.com/ezefranca
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Citation (CITATION.cff)
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this package in your research, please cite it as below."
authors:
- family-names: Santos
given-names: Ezequiel
orcid: "0000-0001-9321-8444"
title: "citations_count is a Python library designed to fetch citation counts for academic publications from multiple sources, including CrossRef, OpenCitations, and Google Scholar."
version: "1.0.0"
url: "https://github.com/ezefranca/citations_count_lib"
repository-code: "https://github.com/ezefranca/citations_count_lib"
doi: "10.5281/zenodo.15079456"
date-released: "2025-03-24"
license: "MIT"
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pypi.org: citations-count
Fetch citation counts from CrossRef, OpenCitations, and Google Scholar.
- Homepage: https://github.com/ezefranca/citations_count_lib
- Documentation: https://citations-count.readthedocs.io/
- License: MIT License Copyright (c) 2025 Ezequiel Santos Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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Latest release: 1.0.0
published 11 months ago