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1.0.0

Analyse Citation Data from Google Scholar

3packages depend
49Kdownloads / year
34.8%test coverage
13/13checks pass

Overview

About
Maintained by Guangchuang YuFirst published 2013-10-2215 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides tools to retrieve, analyse, and format publication and citation data from Google Scholar profiles. It supports profile lookup, publication records, citation histories, scholar comparison, coauthor networks, journal ranking queries, CV-ready publication lists, and citation metric summaries.

Install

Health

CRAN checks
13OK
Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
Code health
Yes
Tests · ratio 0.23
34.8%
Coverage · measured lines
100%
Documentation · exports
10
Dependencies · direct
Check history
  • OK2026-07-08
    13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • ERROR2026-07-06
    12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • OK2026-06-09
    13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • ERROR2026-06-08
    12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • OK2026-05-08
    13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
Show 2 earlier snapshots
  • WARNING2026-05-07
    12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • OK2026-03-10
    14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

Documentation
READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
27%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
87%
References docs
0%

Downloads

49K
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #2,094 · ~134/day · ~4.1K/mo
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2.2K30 days
11.1K90 days
49K1 year
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Repository

Repository
52Stars
7Forks
0Open issues
0Open PRs
0Releases
288Commits
19Contributors
288 commits · Last activity 2026-07-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-19 · 462026-07-07 · 52

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/yulab-smu/scholar on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)
GitHub Actions
Reproducibility and dev environment (1)
Makefile
CRAN release process (2)
cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies
17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
Depends (1)
R >= 4.1.0
LinkingTo (0)
none
Enhances (0)
none
Reverse dependencies
3direct
0indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)
Maintainer (1)
Author, Maintainer · added in 0.1.6
Authors (3)
Author, Maintainer · added in 0.1.6
Author · added in 0.1.6
Contributors (4)
Contributor · added in 0.1.7
Contributor · added in 0.1.7
Contributor · added in 0.2.0
Contributor · added in 0.2.0
Package Timeline

15 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

  • 1.0.0Latest
    2026-07-07 · current release · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
  • 0.2.6
    2026-02-26 · diff ↗
  • 0.2.5
    2025-06-26 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
  • R
    R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
  • R
    R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
  • 0.2.4
    2022-08-09 · diff ↗
  • 0.2.3
    2022-06-23 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
  • 0.2.2
    2021-07-13 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
  • 0.2.1
    2021-04-28 · diff ↗
  • 0.2.0
    2021-01-12 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
  • R
    R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
Show 13 earlier events
  • 0.1.7
    2018-07-03 · diff ↗
  • 0.1.6
    2018-05-23 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
  • R
    R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
  • R
    R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
  • 0.1.4
    2015-11-21 · diff ↗
  • 0.1.3
    2015-09-29 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
  • 0.1.2
    2014-08-22 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
  • 0.1.1
    2013-10-28 · diff ↗
  • 0.1.0
    2013-10-22
  • R
    R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published
2013-10-22
Total releases
15 / 13 yrs
License
MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R
≥ 4.1.0
Download size
1.2 MB
Installed size
not tracked yet
With dependencies
not tracked yet
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