whos_citing_me.py

from semanticscholar import SemanticScholar
from collections import defaultdict
from tqdm import tqdm
import sys
import os


s2_api_key = 'replaceme'
sch = SemanticScholar(timeout=10,api_key=s2_api_key)
print("Connected to SemanticScholar")

# alec
author_ids = [2242015445,145151177,2251097727]

# if author is number make into a singleton list
if isinstance(author_ids, int):
    author_ids = [author_ids]
count = 0
first_count = 0
last_count = 0
papers = []
names = []
for author_id in author_ids:
    author = sch.get_author(author_id)
    names.append(author.name)
    if len(author.papers) < author.paperCount:
        print(f"Warning: {author.name} has {author.paperCount} papers, but only {len(author.papers)} were retrieved")
    # append papers to list
    papers.extend(author.papers)
names = ", ".join(names)

# print names
print(f"Retrieved {len(papers)} papers for {names}")

try:
    # unique papers
    papers = list({paper['paperId']:paper for paper in papers}.values())
    
    # make a dict from "authorname" to count
    author_counts = defaultdict(int)
    
    # for each authors_paper_short_rec in papers
    for authors_paper_short_rec in papers:
        authors_paper_full_rec = sch.get_paper(authors_paper_short_rec['paperId'])
        citations = authors_paper_full_rec.citations
        # for each author in citation['authors']
        for citation in citations:
            for author in citation['authors']:
                # get name
                name = author['name']
                author_counts[name] += 1
except Exception as e:
    print(f"Error: {e}")
    print("-------------------------------------------------")

# print count | name sorted by count
for name, count in sorted(author_counts.items(), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True):
    print(f"{count} | {name}")