Google Scholar Author API
Our Google Scholar Author API allows you to scrape author results from the Google Scholar Author search page. The API is accessed through the following endpoint: /search?engine=google_scholar_author.
A user may query the following: https://serpapi.com/search?engine=google_scholar_author utilizing a GET request. Head to the playground for a live and interactive demo.
API Parameters
Search Query
author_id
Required
Parameter defines the ID of an author. You can find the ID either by using our Google Scholar Profiles API or by going to the Google Scholar user profile page and getting it from there (e.g., https://scholar.google.com/citations?user={author_id}).
Localization
hl
Optional
Parameter defines the language to use for the Google Scholar Author search. It's a two-letter language code. (e.g., en for English, es for Spanish, or fr for French). Head to the Google languages page for a full list of supported Google languages.
Advanced Google Scholar Author Parameters
view_op
Optional
Parameter is used for viewing specific parts of a page. It has two options:view_citation - Select to view citations. citation_id is required.list_colleagues - Select to view all co-authors
Pagination
Serpapi Parameters
no_cache
Optional
Parameter will force SerpApi to fetch the Google Scholar Author results even if a cached version is already present. A cache is served only if the query and all parameters are exactly the same. Cache expires after 1h. Cached searches are free, and are not counted towards your searches per month. It can be set to false (default) to allow results from the cache, or true to disallow results from the cache. no_cache and async parameters should not be used together.
async
Optional
Parameter defines the way you want to submit your search to SerpApi. It can be set to false (default) to open an HTTP connection and keep it open until you got your search results, or true to just submit your search to SerpApi and retrieve them later. In this case, you'll need to use our Searches Archive API to retrieve your results. async and no_cache parameters should not be used together. async should not be used on accounts with Ludicrous Speed enabled.
zero_trace
Optional
Enterprise only. Parameter enables ZeroTrace mode. It can be set to false (default) or true. Enable this mode to skip storing search parameters, search files, and search metadata on our servers. This may make debugging more difficult.
API Results
JSON Results
JSON output includes structured data for articles, citation, cited by, co-authors, and more.
A search status is accessible through search_metadata.status. It flows this way: Processing -> Success || Error. If a search has failed, error will contain an error message. search_metadata.id is the search ID inside SerpApi.
HTML Results
HTML output is useful to debug JSON results or support features not supported yet by SerpApi.
HTML output gives you the raw HTML results from Google Scholar Author page.
API Examples
Example with author_id: LSsXyncAAAAJ
{
"search_metadata": {
"id": "60802ce5de983402dbe1ae4c",
"status": "Success",
"json_endpoint": "https://serpapi.com/searches/79beba2444307aad/60802ce5de983402dbe1ae4c.json",
"created_at": "2021-04-21 13:47:17 UTC",
"processed_at": "2021-04-21 13:47:18 UTC",
"google_scholar_author_url": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LSsXyncAAAAJ&hl=en",
"raw_html_file": "https://serpapi.com/searches/79beba2444307aad/60802ce5de983402dbe1ae4c.html",
"total_time_taken": 1.26
},
"search_parameters": {
"engine": "google_scholar_author",
"author_id": "LSsXyncAAAAJ",
"hl": "en"
},
"author": {
"name": "Cliff Meyer",
"affiliations": "Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health",
"email": "Adresse email validée de jimmy.harvard.edu",
"interests": [
{
"title": "Computational Biology",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=label:computational_biology",
"serpapi_link": "https://serpapi.com/search.json?engine=google_scholar_profiles&hl=en&mauthors=label%3Acomputational_biology"
},
{
"title": "Epigenetics",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=label:epigenetics",
"serpapi_link": "https://serpapi.com/search.json?engine=google_scholar_profiles&hl=en&mauthors=label%3Aepigenetics"
},
{
"title": "Gene Regulation",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=label:gene_regulation",
"serpapi_link": "https://serpapi.com/search.json?engine=google_scholar_profiles&hl=en&mauthors=label%3Agene_regulation"
},
...
],
"thumbnail": "https://scholar.google.com/citations/images/avatar_scholar_128.png"
},
"articles": [
{
"title": "Model-based analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=fr&user=LSsXyncAAAAJ&citation_for_view=LSsXyncAAAAJ:2osOgNQ5qMEC",
"citation_id": "LSsXyncAAAAJ:2osOgNQ5qMEC",
"authors": "Y Zhang, T Liu, CA Meyer, J Eeckhoute, DS Johnson, BE Bernstein, ...",
"publication": "Genome biology 9 (9), 1-9, 2008",
"cited_by": {
"value": 9186,
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=fr&cites=14252090027271643524",
"serpapi_link": "https://serpapi.com/search.json?cites=14252090027271643524&engine=google_scholar&hl=en"
},
"year": "2008"
},
{
"title": "Genome-wide analysis of estrogen receptor binding sites",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=fr&user=LSsXyncAAAAJ&citation_for_view=LSsXyncAAAAJ:9yKSN-GCB0IC",
"citation_id": "LSsXyncAAAAJ:9yKSN-GCB0IC",
"authors": "JS Carroll, CA Meyer, J Song, W Li, TR Geistlinger, J Eeckhoute, ...",
"publication": "Nature genetics 38 (11), 1289-1297, 2006",
"cited_by": {
"value": 1464,
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=fr&cites=7951096779388712529",
"serpapi_link": "https://serpapi.com/search.json?cites=7951096779388712529&engine=google_scholar&hl=en"
},
"year": "2006"
},
{
"title": "Chromosome-wide mapping of estrogen receptor binding reveals long-range regulation requiring the forkhead protein FoxA1",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=fr&user=LSsXyncAAAAJ&citation_for_view=LSsXyncAAAAJ:d1gkVwhDpl0C",
"citation_id": "LSsXyncAAAAJ:d1gkVwhDpl0C",
"authors": "JS Carroll, XS Liu, AS Brodsky, W Li, CA Meyer, AJ Szary, J Eeckhoute, ...",
"publication": "Cell 122 (1), 33-43, 2005",
"cited_by": {
"value": 1371,
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=fr&cites=12018554524946333077",
"serpapi_link": "https://serpapi.com/search.json?cites=12018554524946333077&engine=google_scholar&hl=en"
},
"year": "2005"
},
...
],
"cited_by": {
"table": [
{
"citations": {
"all": 21934,
"depuis_2016": 12302
}
},
{
"indice_h": {
"all": 45,
"depuis_2016": 36
}
},
{
"indice_i10": {
"all": 59,
"depuis_2016": 51
}
}
],
"graph": [
{
"year": 2004,
"citations": "59"
},
{
"year": 2005,
"citations": "65"
},
{
"year": 2006,
"citations": "159"
},
...
]
},
"public_access": {
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_mandates&hl=fr&user=LSsXyncAAAAJ",
"available": 39,
"not_available": 0
},
"co_authors": [
{
"name": "Myles Brown",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wwxk-JMAAAAJ&hl=fr",
"serpapi_link": "https://serpapi.com/search.json?author_id=wwxk-JMAAAAJ&engine=google_scholar_author&hl=en",
"author_id": "wwxk-JMAAAAJ",
"affiliations": "Emil Frei III Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School",
"email": "Adresse e-mail validée de dfci.harvard.edu",
"thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=wwxk-JMAAAAJ&citpid=10"
},
{
"name": "Wei Li",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7IUCbE4AAAAJ&hl=fr",
"serpapi_link": "https://serpapi.com/search.json?author_id=7IUCbE4AAAAJ&engine=google_scholar_author&hl=en",
"author_id": "7IUCbE4AAAAJ",
"affiliations": "Professor of Bioinformatics, University of California Irvine; Baylor College of Medicine",
"email": "Adresse e-mail validée de uci.edu",
"thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=7IUCbE4AAAAJ&citpid=5"
},
{
"name": "Tao Liu",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=04GHe_kAAAAJ&hl=fr",
"serpapi_link": "https://serpapi.com/search.json?author_id=04GHe_kAAAAJ&engine=google_scholar_author&hl=en",
"author_id": "04GHe_kAAAAJ",
"affiliations": "Assistant Professor, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center",
"email": "Adresse e-mail validée de roswellpark.org",
"thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=04GHe_kAAAAJ&citpid=2"
},
...
],
"serpapi_pagination": {
"next": "https://serpapi.com/search.json?author_id=LSsXyncAAAAJ&cstart=20&engine=google_scholar_author&hl=en"
}
}