Landing page: Citation details outdated/broken

[MakisH]

In the landing page:

• We still have the v1 paper in the counter
• The URL does not work
• The fallback citation numbers is used (222 instead of currently 397)

Maybe it's time to replace the counter with the v2 paper, or add both somehow. We should also fix the link issue.

[kss682]

Continuing the discussion from #524,

It seems like google scholar technically do not allow scraping and since the github action servers might be using IP ranges which could be blacklisted by google.

One option would be use to add User-Agent header or we could use public APIs like semantic-api ( they have a limit of 1000 requests per second among all unauthenticated users.)

Eg:

https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/10.12688/openreseurope.14445.1?fields=referenceCount

[MakisH]

I am not sure which solution would be the easiest to implement, but both sound sustainable to me if they do the job. Does the Semantic Scholar API report the same numbers as Google Scholar, or will we confuse people if we link to the one and get numbers from the other?

Alternative: Do you think we could (mis)use this GitHub Action to get what we need?

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/google-scholar-fetcher

[kss682]

I tried with the Semantic API and the citation count is different from what we have from google scholar.

Also is this what we want for the citation layout ?

[MakisH]

I would expect all buttons to be next to each other, potentially with shorter text or some grouping.

[kss682]

Reverted back to google scholar due to citation mismatch with semantic API, fetching these results using user-agent.
I have reduced the spacing but not sure of how we can shorten the text.

[uekerman]

"preCICE" is clear from context. Maybe simply "v2 citations (134)"?

Or:

• Cited by 134
• v1 cited by 399

[kss682]

Do you feel the whitespace below needs to be reduced ?

[MakisH]

I think the whitespace is ok, but I would really put the buttons next to each other.

[kss682]

Something like this ?

[MakisH]

Yes, perfect!
I guess we can remove the parentheses around the number.

Maybe:

• v2 cited by 134 works
• v1 cited by 397 works
• Literature guide

[kss682]

I tried playing around with the github action mentioned earlier. Apparently they use user ID as a filter not the paper ID.
github-action

[MakisH]

Since that Action is rather new, it might make sense contacting the developer (via an issue) to investigate whether adding an option for a paper id would make sense. If the addition seems to be clear, you could also directly implement it and open a pull request.

But I would do this only if there is some indication that this approach will actually not face the same access issues.

[kss682]

FYI
sxlllslgh/google-scholar-fetcher#1