Academic Paper Finder

This script provides an interface to search for academic papers from multiple sources including IEEE Xplore, arXiv, PubMed, CrossRef, and more. It uses a sequential combined search strategy to go through the strategies one by one until the requested number of paper abstracts are found.

Read for more information: https://medium.com/@zakaria.hamane1/how-to-automate-academic-paper-searches-with-python-part-i-65bd1c837f4c

Setup

1. Clone the repository to your local machine.
2. Install the required Python packages using the requirements.txt file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Set up your environment variables by copying the .env template to your project root and filling in your API keys and email for PubMed.

cp env_files/local.env .env

Edit .env with your actual credentials.

Usage

Initialize the SearchHelper with the desired search strategies in a preferred order. Then, execute a search with a query and the number of abstracts you wish to retrieve.

Example:

from search_helper import SearchHelper

helper = SearchHelper()
helper.set_sequential_combined_strategy(["ieee", "arxiv"])
papers = helper.execute("Artificial Intelligence", 10)
for paper in papers:
 print(paper)

Environment Variables

• S2_API_KEY_1: Your Semantic Scholar API key.
• CORE_API_KEY: Your CORE API key.
• SPRINGER_API_KEY: Your Springer API key.
• SS_EMAIL: Your email for Entrez PubMed API.
• SCOPUS_API_KEY: Your Scopus API key.