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Pyscholar

pyversion license

A library to create science collaboration networks.

Requirements

Pyscholar does not support Python 3.x

Installation

Before installing Pyscholar you must get your API Key in the following link.

First you need to clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/rfabila/Pyscholar.git

Then you must run setup.py and enter your API KEY

$ python setup.py
$ Your Scopus API key:(Enter here your API Key)

Basic Usage

First navigate to the installation directory:

$ cd ~/Pyscholar/src

Then execute python

$ python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

And import the Pyscholar package in the REPL

>>> import pyscholar

And now you can do some searching.

Examples

The following function performs a search by author. It receives the first and last name, and returns a list of IDs associated with the author.

>>> pyscholar.find_author_scopus_id_by_name("Ruy", "Fabila-Monroy")
>>> [u'56013555800', u'16635924700']

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.