RobinHCK / academic-keyword-occurrence-with-plot

Extracts the historic word occurrence of a search term in academic papers & Plot the graph

Historic word occurrence in academic papers & Plot the graph

Summary

This script extracts the historic word occurrence of a search term in academic papers (from Google Scholar) and plot a graph. It allows for spotting trends in research and analyzing the relevance of a topic over time.

Usage

python extract_occurrences.py "<keyword>" <start date> <end date>

This command lists the number of publications for every year using this keyword. The script just searches for articles and excludes patents and citations. A graph is created (with Maplotlib) and saved at the end of the workflow.

Example

• Search term: "digital pathology"
• Desired time span: 1970 to 2022
• Command: python extract_occurrences.py "digital pathology" 1970 2022
• Output: digital pathology.csv

Credits

Created by Volker Strobel - [e-mail]

If you use this code in academic papers, please cite this repository via Zenodo (http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1218409):

Volker Strobel. (2018, April 14). Pold87/academic-keyword-occurrence: First release (Version v1.0.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1218409

Graph plot by Robin HCK - [e-mail]