# Google Scholar

This provider exposes tools and data accessible through its parent verticals. Use the example prompts as inspiration for your queries.

**Slug:** `googlescholar`

**Description:** Search academic papers, retrieve citations in multiple formats, explore author profiles with h-index metrics, and traverse citation networks via Google Scholar.

## Verticals

This provider is available in the following verticals:

- [News](https://kirha.com/verticals/news.md)
- [Medical](https://kirha.com/verticals/medical.md)
- [Company](https://kirha.com/verticals/company.md)

## Example prompts (non-exhaustive)

- `Find recent papers on large language models published after 2023 and get their citations`
- `Look up the h-index and top publications of a researcher by their Google Scholar author ID`
- `Search for papers on CRISPR gene editing, then find all papers that cite the most-cited result`
- `Get the BibTeX citation for a specific paper and find all available versions including preprints`
- `Find co-authors of a researcher and compare their citation metrics`

## Available tools in this provider

Open a tool to see its input and output schemas.

### [`getAuthorProfile`](https://kirha.com/providers/googlescholar/getAuthorProfile.md)

Get a scholar's profile with publications, citation metrics (h-index, i10-index), yearly citation graph, and research interests. Use authorId from searchPapers authors. Returns citationIds for getAuthorArticle and authorIds for co-author lookup.

### [`getCitedByPapers`](https://kirha.com/providers/googlescholar/getCitedByPapers.md)

Find all papers that cite a specific paper. Use citesId from searchPapers results. Supports year filtering and pagination for exploring citation networks.

### [`getCitations`](https://kirha.com/providers/googlescholar/getCitations.md)

Get formatted citation strings (MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, Vancouver) and download links (BibTeX, EndNote, RefMan, RefWorks) for one or more papers. Use resultIds from searchPapers.

### [`getPaperVersions`](https://kirha.com/providers/googlescholar/getPaperVersions.md)

Find all versions of a paper across different sources — published version, preprints, repository copies. Use clusterId from searchPapers. Useful for finding free/open-access versions of paywalled papers.

### [`getAuthorArticle`](https://kirha.com/providers/googlescholar/getAuthorArticle.md)

Get detailed information about one or more articles from an author's profile, including journal, volume, pages, publisher, and description. Use authorId and citationIds from getAuthorProfile.

### [`getAuthorCoAuthors`](https://kirha.com/providers/googlescholar/getAuthorCoAuthors.md)

List all co-authors for a given scholar with their names, affiliations, and author IDs. Use authorId from getAuthorProfile or searchPapers. Returns authorIds for chaining to getAuthorProfile.

### [`searchPapers`](https://kirha.com/providers/googlescholar/searchPapers.md)

Search Google Scholar for academic papers, articles, and citations. Supports query operators (author:, source:) and year range filters. Use resultIds with getCitations, citesId with getCitedByPapers, clusterId with getPaperVersions.

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**Tags:** academic, research, papers, citations, scholar, science

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