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The ADS citation bot informs you via E-Mail and/or Twitter about new citations to your academic papers

ADS citation bot

Informs you via E-Mail and/or Twitter about new citations to your academic papers.

What does it do?

When one of your papers receives a new citation on ADS, you can get an E-Mail with the following text:

New citation to: Optimized transit detection algorithm by: Heller, René et al. - Transit least-squares survey (...) https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019A%26A...627A..66H/abstract

If you add your Twitter account, you will be tweeted:

@hippke Your paper "Optimized transit detection algorithm" was cited by Heller, René et al. - Transit least-squares survey (...) https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019A%26A...627A..66H/abstract

How to register?

Register and manage your settings with this Google Form

• If you want to receive Twitter tweets, follow AdsCitations.
• In the form, provide your ADS search string:
  • This is an ADS search which yields the papers you have published.
  • The bot will search for citations to these papers.
  • To create and test your query, open ADS and fiddle with the search until (ideally) all of your papers, but only your papers, are found.
    • For example: author:hippke,m
    • People with a common name may try something like this example.
    • Alternatively, assign an ORCiD to your papers and search for orcid:XXX.
    • You can also search for your bibcodes.
    • Another option is to link to a library which you create on ADS. The query is: docs(library/library-number-taken-from-library-URL)
  • You need to insert the search string from the ADS search box into the registration form (not the ADS URL from your browser).

Update mode

• After registration, you will receive an E-Mail (if you select E-Mail updates) with all citations found initially.
• Afterwards, the bot will search ADS periodically send you an E-Mail if and only if you have received new citations (and if you select E-Mail updates).
• If you add your Twitter username, you will receive tweets about new citations.

Issues

• The information you provide (E-Mail, Twitter handle, ADS query) will be processed by Github Actions and become exposed to the public.
• If you have any issues, please open an issue on Github