From d109d83bf590c0dcaa78b4e9ad6e1580caf5070c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "borondics.accounts@gmail.com" <borondics@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:43:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] updated citations

---
 data/citations.toml         |  2 ++
 scripts/update_citations.py | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 data/citations.toml
 create mode 100644 scripts/update_citations.py

diff --git a/data/citations.toml b/data/citations.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bbd1f862
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/citations.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+direct = 121
+secondary = 831
diff --git a/scripts/update_citations.py b/scripts/update_citations.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a5c837f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/update_citations.py
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+import sys
+
+import toml
+from scholarly import scholarly
+
+print("Searching on Google scholar")
+
+author = scholarly.search_author_id('_7AMrKgAAAAJ')  # _7AMrKgAAAAJ is Quasar
+
+quasar_stats = scholarly.fill(author, sections=['basics', 'indices', 'counts', 'publications'])
+
+scholarly.pprint(quasar_stats)
+
+# What papers cited our publications?
+cit = []
+for pub in quasar_stats['publications']:
+    print(pub)
+    cit.append([citation for citation in scholarly.citedby(pub)]) # limit the number of test runs because this will get blocked bu Google quickly
+
+print(f'There are currently {len(quasar_stats["publications"])} Quasar papers.')
+for pub in quasar_stats['publications']:
+    print(' ',pub['bib']['title'])
+
+fcit = [item for sublist in cit for item in sublist] # this is a flat list now
+print(f'\nWe have {len(fcit)} citations so far for our Quasar papers.')
+
+# I wonder if this can be done in fewer lines. :D
+authors = [c["author_id"] for c in fcit]
+citing_authors = [item for sublist in authors for item in sublist]
+citing_authors = set([c for c in citing_authors if c]) # citing authors with Google Scholar profile
+print(f'\nThere are {len(citing_authors)} people citing Quasar with a Google Scholar profile.')
+
+# count how many papers cite those papers that use Quasar - this is the real impact.
+secondary_cit = sum([paper["num_citations"] for paper in fcit])
+print(f'\n{secondary_cit} papers cite the works which use Quasar.')
+
+FN = "../data/citations.toml"
+td = toml.load(FN)
+
+if len(fcit) < int(td["direct"]):
+    print("Citation number of direct citations has decreased; exiting.")
+    sys.exit(-1)
+else:
+    td["direct"] = len(fcit)
+
+if secondary_cit < int(td["secondary"]):
+    print("Citation number of secondary citations has decreased; exiting.")
+    sys.exit(-1)
+else:
+    td["secondary"] = secondary_cit
+
+with open(FN,  "wt") as of:
+    toml.dump(td, of)