Conference Citation Ranker

This code helps to retrieve all papers from conferences and rank them by the number of (Google Scholar) citations.

It will save the retrieved paper information to a .csv file containing the Title, Number of Citations, Web Link, Conference, and Year. The .csv file is sorted according to the Citation number.

This tool can help find the most cited papers in a conference and discover hot research topics.

Requirements

Python3

Chrome Diver

Installation

Download Git Repo git clone https://github.com/Yaoming95/CitationRanker.git
Install requirements pip install -r requirements.txt
Download Chrome Diver in order to enter Captcha when Google robot checking is enabled. After downloading chromedriver, rename it to chromedriver and put it into current folder.
Run the command (e.g., python citationRanker.py -c <confence abbr> -y <year>).

Usage

General Usage

python citationRanker.py -c <conference abbr> -y <year_start> \
 -e <year_end, optional> -o <output_path, optional> -kw <keywords, optional> \
 --driver <path for Chrome Driver, optional>

The code support multiple conferences and keyword, which shall be separated by comma

The conference abbr. is case insensitive, but shall be consist with dblp. For example, for Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, nips is for papers before year 2017, and neurips is for ones after year 2018.

To get help

python citationRanker.py -h

Simple Tutorial and Examples

1.Retrieve the publication of a single conference in a certain year

python citationRanker.py -c <conference> -y <year>

# e.g. If you want to retrieve the publications of SIGIR’18
python citationRanker.py -c sigir -y 2018

2.Retrieve the publication of multiple conferences in a certain year

python citationRanker.py -c <conference1>,<conference2>  -y <year>

# e.g. If you want to retrieve the publications of SIGIR’18 and KDD'18
python citationRanker.py -c sigir,kdd -y 2018

3.Retrieve the publication of a conferences in several years span.

python citationRanker.py -c <conference>  -y <start year> -e <end year>

# e.g. If you want to retrieve the publications of SIGIR from 2018 to 2020 
python citationRanker.py -c sigir -y 2018 -e 2020

# e.g. If you want to retrieve the publications of NIPS from 2017 to 2020
python citationRanker.py -c nips,neurips -y 2017 -e 2020

4.Retrieve the publications with keywords.

python citationRanker.py -c <conference>  -y <start year> -kw <keyword>

# e.g. If you want to retrieve the publications of SIGIR'18 about `search`
python citationRanker.py -c sigir -y 2018 -kw search

# e.g. If you want to retrieve the publications of EMNLP&ACL&NAACL about `machine translation` in 2019
python citationRanker.py -c emnlp,acl,naacl -y 2019 -kw machine,translation

5.Specify the output file

python citationRanker.py -c <conference> -y <year> -o <output file>

# e.g. If you want to retrieve the publications about search of SIGIR’18 and save it to search.csv
python citationRanker.py -c sigir -y 2018 -kw search -o search.csv

About Captcha

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Acknowledgment

WittmannF's repo helped my development.

Yaoming95 / CitationRanker