OpenAlex citation counts

citation_count.py

import requests


def get_citation_counts():
    # sample author
    author_id = "https://openalex.org/A2151238091"

    # get up to 50 works for this author
    r2 = requests.get(
        f"https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=authorships.author.id:{author_id}"
    )

    # go through each work, then count how many other works cite it in a given year
    years = range(2000, 2023)
    result = dict()

    for work in r2.json()["results"]:
        for year in years:
            r3 = requests.get(
                f"https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=publication_year:{year},cites:{work['id']}"
            )
            citation_count = r3.json()["meta"]["count"]
            if year not in result:
                result[year] = citation_count
            else:
                result[year] = result[year] + citation_count

    # result for those 50 works from 2000-2022
    print(result)

    # {
    #     2000: 0,
    #     2001: 0,
    #     2002: 0,
    #     2003: 0,
    #     2004: 0,
    #     2005: 0,
    #     2006: 0,
    #     2007: 0,
    #     2008: 0,
    #     2009: 0,
    #     2010: 1,
    #     2011: 2,
    #     2012: 0,
    #     2013: 1,
    #     2014: 6,
    #     2015: 4,
    #     2016: 8,
    #     2017: 5,
    #     2018: 4,
    #     2019: 2,
    #     2020: 4,
    #     2021: 19,
    #     2022: 14,
    # }


if __name__ == "__main__":
    get_citation_counts()