Google Scholar Cite API

Extract citation metrics from published Google Scholar authors.

To enable this engine, set the engine=google_scholar_cite parameter.

In Google Scholar, authors are allowed to publish their citation metrics, which get automatically updated. With the Google Scholar Cite API you can easily scrape these results by simply passing the General API Parameters and the query parameter.

Scrape Google Scholar Cite

Google Scholar Cite API Integration Examples

We will use following URL as an example for this request:

https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=google_scholar_cite&api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&q=FDc6HiktlqEJ

Ready to Use Google Scholar Cite API Scraping Scripts

cURL

curl --request GET --url "https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=google_scholar_cite&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&q=FDc6HiktlqEJ"

NodeJS

const http = require("https");

const options = {
  "method": "GET",
  "hostname": "serpapi.webscrapingapi.com",
  "port": null,
  "path": "/v1?engine=google_scholar_cite&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&q=FDc6HiktlqEJ",
  "headers": {}
};

const req = http.request(options, function (res) {
  const chunks = [];

  res.on("data", function (chunk) {
    chunks.push(chunk);
  });

  res.on("end", function () {
    const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
    console.log(body.toString());
  });
});

req.end();

Python

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("serpapi.webscrapingapi.com")

conn.request("GET", "/v1?engine=google_scholar_cite&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&q=FDc6HiktlqEJ")

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

PHP

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=google_scholar_cite&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&q=FDc6HiktlqEJ",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

Go

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=google_scholar_cite&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&q=FDc6HiktlqEJ"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

Java

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=google_scholar_cite&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&q=FDc6HiktlqEJ")
  .asString();

.NET

var client = new RestClient("https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=google_scholar_cite&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&q=FDc6HiktlqEJ");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=google_scholar_cite&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&q=FDc6HiktlqEJ")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Google Scholar Cite API Parameter

#1: Query Parameter

Parameter	Type	Description
q Required	string	The keywords that you are searching for on Google (the query).

To access this API, your GET request should be sent to the following address:

https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=google_scholar_cite&api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&q=<CITATION_ID>

Response Example

{
 "search_parameters": {
  "google_url": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=info:FDc6HiktlqEJ:scholar.google.com&output=cite&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8",
  "engine": "google_scholar_cite",
  "google_domain": "scholar.google.com",
  "device": "desktop",
  "query": "FDc6HiktlqEJ"
 },
 "citations": [
  {
   "title": "MLA",
   "snippet": "Schwertmann, U. T. R. M., and Reginald M. Taylor. \"Iron oxides.\" Minerals in soil environments 1 (1989): 379-438."
  },
  {
   "title": "APA",
   "snippet": "Schwertmann, U. T. R. M., & Taylor, R. M. (1989). Iron oxides. Minerals in soil environments, 1, 379-438."
  },
  {
   "title": "Chicago",
   "snippet": "Schwertmann, U. T. R. M., and Reginald M. Taylor. \"Iron oxides.\" Minerals in soil environments 1 (1989): 379-438."
  },
  {
   "title": "Harvard",
   "snippet": "Schwertmann, U.T.R.M. and Taylor, R.M., 1989. Iron oxides. Minerals in soil environments, 1, pp.379-438."
  },
  {
   "title": "Vancouver",
   "snippet": "Schwertmann UT, Taylor RM. Iron oxides. Minerals in soil environments. 1989 Jan 1;1:379-438."
  }
 ],
 "links": [
  {
   "name": "BibTeX",
   "link": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar.bib?q=info:FDc6HiktlqEJ:scholar.google.com/&output=citation&scisdr=CgVZ4FBiGAA:AAGBfm0AAAAAYQvoREOhWGSEQolJxcNMAraGUolUmLw6&scisig=AAGBfm0AAAAAYQvoRP3-8nWDCT-_ICEcbyAKFuUy8_v1&scisf=4&ct=citation&cd=-1&hl=en"
  },
  {
   "name": "EndNote",
   "link": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar.enw?q=info:FDc6HiktlqEJ:scholar.google.com/&output=citation&scisdr=CgVZ4FBiGAA:AAGBfm0AAAAAYQvoREOhWGSEQolJxcNMAraGUolUmLw6&scisig=AAGBfm0AAAAAYQvoRP3-8nWDCT-_ICEcbyAKFuUy8_v1&scisf=3&ct=citation&cd=-1&hl=en"
  },
  {
   "name": "RefMan",
   "link": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar.ris?q=info:FDc6HiktlqEJ:scholar.google.com/&output=citation&scisdr=CgVZ4FBiGAA:AAGBfm0AAAAAYQvoREOhWGSEQolJxcNMAraGUolUmLw6&scisig=AAGBfm0AAAAAYQvoRP3-8nWDCT-_ICEcbyAKFuUy8_v1&scisf=2&ct=citation&cd=-1&hl=en"
  },
  {
   "name": "RefWorks",
   "link": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar.rfw?q=info:FDc6HiktlqEJ:scholar.google.com/&output=citation&scisdr=CgVZ4FBiGAA:AAGBfm0AAAAAYQvoREOhWGSEQolJxcNMAraGUolUmLw6&scisig=AAGBfm0AAAAAYQvoRP3-8nWDCT-_ICEcbyAKFuUy8_v1&scisf=1&ct=citation&cd=-1&hl=en"
  }
 ]
}