get_profile: Gets profile information for a scholar
Description
Gets profile information for a researcher from Google Scholar.
Each scholar profile page gives the researcher's name,
affiliation, their homepage (if specified), and a summary of their
key citation and publication availability metrics. The scholar
ID can be found by searching Google Scholar at
http://scholar.google.com.
Usage
get_profile(id)
Value
a list containing the scholar's name, affiliation,
citations, impact and publication availability metrics,
research interests, homepage and coauthors.
Metrics include:
total_cites combined citations to all publications
h_index the largest number h such that h publications each have at least h citations
i10_index the number of publications that each have at least 10 citations
available the number of publications that have a version online that can be read for free (though not necessarily reusable under an open access license)
not_available the number of publications only available behind a paywall
Arguments
id
a character string specifying the Google Scholar ID.
If multiple ids are specified, only the first value is used and a
warning is generated. See the example below for how to profile
multiple scholars.