Retrieving articles with zero citations with "scholarly.search_author"

[davidcx89]

First of all, I'd like to express my gratitude to the developers for making such a wonderful tool to explore Google Scholar!

One question I have is how to scrape information on publications that received no citations in the "search_author" function, as it doesn't seem to fetch those kinds of papers.

Thanks!

[ipeirotis]

Do you have an example? If we do not return these publications we should fix the code to also retrieve and return the 0 citation publications.

[davidcx89]

Yes, I was just searching this guy’s publication record (https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=douXwx0AAAAJ&hl=en), but wasn’t able retrieve his zero citation papers.

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[ipeirotis]

Sorry, I was not able to reproduce:

from scholarly import scholarly

author = scholarly.search_author_id('douXwx0AAAAJ')
author = scholarly.fill(author, sections = ['publications'])
scholarly.pprint(author)

returns

{
    'affiliation': 'Assistant professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and '
    'Technology',
    'citedby': 135,
    'email_domain': '@ust.hk',
    'filled': False,
    'homepage': 'http://www.yonghoon-lee.com/',
    'interests': ['Social networks', 'reputation', 'and careers'],
    'name': 'Yonghoon G. LEE',
    'organization': 9568810911513724267,
    'publications': [{
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:9yKSN-GCB0IC',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2016',
                'title': 'The art of representation: How '
                'audience-specific reputations affect '
                'success in the contemporary art field'
            },
            'citedby_url': 'https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=9911879913038383816',
            'cites_id': ['9911879913038383816'],
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 62,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:2osOgNQ5qMEC',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2016',
                'title': 'Relational changes during role '
                'transitions: The interplay of efficiency '
                'and cohesion'
            },
            'citedby_url': 'https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=1761173823637926996',
            'cites_id': ['1761173823637926996'],
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 40,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:roLk4NBRz8UC',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2019',
                'title': 'Middle-status conformity revisited: The '
                'interplay between achieved and ascribed '
                'status'
            },
            'citedby_url': 'https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=14296052248354513580',
            'cites_id': ['14296052248354513580'],
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 25,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:hqOjcs7Dif8C',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2021',
                'title': 'Anchored Differentiation: The Role of '
                'Temporal Distance in the Comparison and '
                'Evaluation of New Product Designs'
            },
            'citedby_url': 'https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=3754919005071725726',
            'cites_id': ['3754919005071725726'],
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 4,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:UeHWp8X0CEIC',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2016',
                'title': 'The art of representation: how reputation '
                'affects success with different audiences '
                'in the contemporary art field'
            },
            'citedby_url': 'https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=4827119363009575475',
            'cites_id': ['4827119363009575475'],
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 2,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:Tyk-4Ss8FVUC',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2013',
                'title': 'Confused by the middle: Status, '
                'acquisition advisors, and their '
                'opportunism in acquisition premium'
            },
            'citedby_url': 'https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=8960339964136780082',
            'cites_id': ['8960339964136780082'],
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 2,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:5nxA0vEk-isC',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2021',
                'title': 'Escaping the Survival Trap: Network '
                'Transition among Early-Career Freelance '
                'Songwriters'
            },
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 0,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:_FxGoFyzp5QC',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2016',
                'title': 'A good professional reputation is in the '
                'eye of the beholder'
            },
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 0,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:zYLM7Y9cAGgC',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2015',
                'title': 'Dependence asymmetry and maintenance of '
                'brokerage positions'
            },
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 0,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:qjMakFHDy7sC',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2015',
                'title': 'Divide and Conquer: Brokerage Dynamics '
                'and Dependence Asymmetry'
            },
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 0,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:W7OEmFMy1HYC',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2014',
                'title': 'Partnering up: The effect of status '
                'difference on using an advisor in mergers '
                'and acquisitions'
            },
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 0,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:ufrVoPGSRksC',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2013',
                'title': 'Losing Touch: Balancing Cohesion & '
                'Efficiency During Management Transitions'
            },
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 0,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:YsMSGLbcyi4C',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2012',
                'title': 'Tie Loss and Tie Gain: Trust & efficiency '
                'during management transitions'
            },
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 0,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:Y0pCki6q_DkC',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2012',
                'title': 'Multilayered Political Dynamics in '
                'Institutional Changes'
            },
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 0,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:eQOLeE2rZwMC',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2012',
                'title': 'Ties Loss and Gain During Management '
                'Transitions'
            },
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 0,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:IjCSPb-OGe4C',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2009',
                'title': 'Prior knowledge and efficiency in '
                'innovation process at the firm level'
            },
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 0,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:WF5omc3nYNoC',
            'bib': {
                'pub_year': '2008',
                'title': 'Innovations in Korea: Absorptive '
                'capacity, external capabilities, and '
                'organizational networks'
            },
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 0,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        },
        {
            'author_pub_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ:UebtZRa9Y70C',
            'bib': {
                'title': 'Optimal Distinctiveness Revisited: Using '
                'Temporal Distance to Decouple Typicality '
                'Effects on the Value of Product Design'
            },
            'filled': False,
            'num_citations': 0,
            'source': 'AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY'
        }
    ],
    'scholar_id': 'douXwx0AAAAJ',
    'source': 'AUTHOR_PROFILE_PAGE',
    'url_picture': 'https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=view_photo&user=douXwx0AAAAJ&citpid=2'
}

[davidcx89]

I think I may have been using an old version. Just tried updating with PIP and now it works like a charm. Thanks for looking into this!!

[arunkannawadi]

I'm not aware of any bugs in the previous versions that was not fetching articles with 0 citations. This must have been mostly a transient, and you should expect all articles listed to be fetched.