MyScholar

What is Google Scholar and how it is Useful?

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. Features of Google Scholar:-

• Search all scholarly literature from one convenient place
• Explore related works, citations, authors, and publications
• Locate the complete document through your library or on the web
• Keep up with recent developments in any area of research
• Check who's citing your publications, create a public author profile

Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature.

Inspiration

Now you know how useful Google Scholar is. Then why not just use it for our research in a good way. That's the reason I thought to use it for our use in a easy and specific way. Finding Journals, articles that are relevant are though but with the help of my application it would be easy and much better.

What it does

MY scholar is a metric computation system for researchers with a Google Scholar profile. Google Scholar provides researchers with stats such as the number of publications, citations, h-index, and i10 index. But, these metrics are flawed. my Google Scholar extracts some basic information form Google Scholar and computes better metrics, and displays them on another website. So, researchers can now see better, effective metrics with a single click.

After running the server, point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000/metrics/.To register, enter your Google Scholar profile URL(such as https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=m8dFEawAAAAJ) and click Register. You will be directed to the profiles page showing better stats. You can click on individual metrics for details. To search for an already registered scholar, simply search his/her name in the search bar.

Challenges I ran into

There is no project without challenges. Data scraping from google without policy violation is the toughest task I found. I used selenium with for data scraping initially, then later used scholarly to scrap data. Then displaying visualization information is a next challenge. But in the end I had the last laugh.

What's next for MyScholar

The next plan is to make this web application an chrome extension for ease of use.

Built With

• api
• bootstrap
• django
• react
• selenium
• swagger