processing Google (Scholar) data

[Loet Leydesdorff]

 <http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/gscholar/gscholar.exe> GScholar.EXE

 

This program reads an ASCII text file entitled google.txt as input. The file
can be composed by cutting and pasting output of Google Scholar into a
single file using an ASCII editor like Notepad (using Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C,
Ctrl-V). 

 

The output is organized in two files named records.dbf and au.dbf which can
be related through the field "nr". Records contains the unique information
such as title, journal name, publication year, and times cited; au.dbf
organizes individual author names in the case of coauthorship. The file
au.dbf allows for the construction of a coauthorship network. 

 

See for most applications also: Anne-Will Harzing's Publish or
<http://www.harzing.com/resources.htm#/pop.htm> Perish.

 

 

 <http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/google/google.exe> Google.EXE

 

This program reads an ASCII text file entitled google.txt as input. The file
can be composed by cutting and pasting output of Google into a single file
using an ASCII editor like Notepad (using Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V). 

 

The output is organized in two files named records.dbf which contains two
fields: the information line and the web link.

 

 

 

 

The Google output is dependent on the browser when saved as html. Therefore,
these programs use the .txt format. The data is best prepared by cutting and
pasting the files into a single file using an ASCII editor (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C,
Ctrl-V). The programs delete irrelevant information automatically. 

 

Please, provide feedback if you find an error. 

 

 

@ Loet Leydesdorff, July 2008

 
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Loet Leydesdorff 
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam
 <mailto:loet at leydesdorff.net> loet at leydesdorff.net ;
<http://www.leydesdorff.net/> http://www.leydesdorff.net/ 


Visiting Professor 2007-2010,  <http://www.istic.ac.cn/Eng/brief_en.html>
ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow 2007-2010,  <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/>
SPRU, University of Sussex 
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