academic-keyword-occurrence

Historic word occurrence in academic papers

Summary

This script extracts the historic word occurrence of a search term in academic papers (from Google Scholar). It allows for spotting trends in research and analyzing the relevance of a topic over time.

There is a Python 3 branch (master) and a Python 2 branch (python2).

Usage

python extract_occurrences.py '<keyword>' <start date> <end date>

This command lists the number of publications for every year using this keyword. The script just searches for articles and excludes patents and citations.

Alternative: Usage with Docker

You can use Docker to run this script, without the need of having Python or its dependencies installed.

1. Update the command with your search term and time range in docker-compose.yml
2. run docker-compose up

Example

• Search term: ‘bitcoin’
• Desired time span: 2000 to 2015
• Command: python extract_occurrences.py 'bitcoin' 2000 2015
• Output: out.csv, with the following contents:

year	results
…	…
2011	141
2012	292
2013	889
2014	2370
2015	2580

Credits

Created by Volker Strobel - [email protected]

If you use this code in academic papers, please cite this repository via Zenodo (http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1218409):

Volker Strobel. (2018, April 14). Pold87/academic-keyword-occurrence: First release (Version v1.0.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1218409