[Programming question]: Citations of DOIs

[haesleinhuepf]

Assume I have a list of DOIs given as a python list of strings. Is there a way to automatically determine if these DOIs were cited anywhere?

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Hi!

Yes, it's possible to search for DOI citations using various scholarly APIs. Here's an example using scholarly from Google Scholar and crossref-commons:

import pandas as pd
from scholarly import scholarly
from crossref.restful import Works

def check_doi_citations(doi_list):
    works = Works()
    results = []
    
    for doi in doi_list:
        # Get citation count from Crossref
        try:
            work = works.doi(doi)
            crossref_citations = work['is-referenced-by-count']
        except:
            crossref_citations = None
            
        # Get citation count from Google Scholar
        try:
            query = scholarly.search_pubs(doi)
            pub = next(query)
            scholar_citations = pub.citedby
        except:
            scholar_citations = None
            
        results.append({
            'DOI': doi,
            'Crossref_Citations': crossref_citations,
            'Scholar_Citations': scholar_citations
        })
    
    return pd.DataFrame(results)

# Example usage
dois = ['10.1038/s41592-019-0686-2', '10.1038/s41592-021-01249-6']
citations_df = check_doi_citations(dois)
print(citations_df)

Note: You'll need to install the required packages:

pip install scholarly pandas crossrefapi

This will give you citation counts from both Crossref and Google Scholar. Keep in mind that these APIs might have rate limits and the results might not be 100% accurate.

[haesleinhuepf]

Very cool! git-bob implement this and print out all citations of these DOIs:
"10.5281/zenodo.5601995", "10.5281/zenodo.10432619", "10.5281/zenodo.7827755"