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How I scraped data from Google Scholar

A researcher explains how — and why — he spent a whole summer harvesting information from the platform, which is notoriously hard to mine.
  1. Holly Else
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A team of academics spent months collecting data on 2.3 million papers from the academic search engine Google Scholar — to find out how often the popular service points readers to versions of research papers that are free to read.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-04190-5

References

  1. Martín-Martín, A., Costas, R., van Leeuwen, T. & López-Cózar, E. Preprint at https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/k54uv (2018).

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