A charting userscript for Google Scholar distinguishing articles by the publication year and the number of citations
// ==UserScript==
// @name ScholarChart
// @namespace ScholarChartNameSpace
// @description A charting userscript for Google Scholar distinguishing articles by the publication year and the number of citations
// @include http://scholar.google.ca/*
// @include https://scholar.google.ca/*
// @include http://scholar.google.com/*
// @include https://scholar.google.com/*
// @version 1.0
// @license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
// @require http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js
// @require http://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js
// @require http://code.highcharts.com/highcharts-more.js
// @require http://code.highcharts.com/modules/exporting.js
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
document.body.style.background = '#F8F8FF';
// Code to remove User Profile h3 if searching for people by adding an id
if ($("h3").first().text().substring(0, 17) == "User profiles for")
{
$("h3").first().attr('id', 'UserProfile');
}
// end user profile code
var elemNumber = 0;
$("h3[id!='UserProfile']").each(function() {
elemNumber++;
});
var resultObject = new Array(elemNumber);
var resultObjectYear = new Array(elemNumber);
var resultObjectCitation = new Array(elemNumber);
var resultObjectCitationLink = new Array(elemNumber);
var resultObjectUrl = new Array(elemNumber);
$("h3[id!='UserProfile']").each(function(i, l) {
resultObject[i]=$(l).text();
resultObjectUrl[i] = $(this).find('a[href]').first().attr('href');
});
var yearLessArticleFound = false;
$(".gs_a").each(function(i , l) {
try {
resultObjectYear[i] = parseInt($(this).text().match(/\s(19|20)\d\d/)[0]);//replace(/[^0-9$]/gi, ''));
}
catch(err) { // if no year is found
yearLessArticleFound = true;
yearToUseInstead = new Date().getFullYear() + 5;
resultObjectYear[i] = yearToUseInstead;
}
resultObjectYear[i] = resultObjectYear[i] + ((Math.random()/4)-0.125);
});
var chartSubtitleText = "";
if (yearLessArticleFound == true)
chartSubtitleText = "No year is found for one or more articles. The year " + (yearToUseInstead.toString()) + " is used instead.";
$(".gs_fl:not(.gs_ggs)").each(function(i, l) {
if($(this).find( "a:contains('Cited by')").html() != null)
{
resultObjectCitation[i] = parseInt($(this).find( "a:contains('Cited by')").html().replace(/[^0-9]/gi, ''));
resultObjectCitationLink[i] = window.location.host + $(this).find( "a:contains('Cited by')").attr( "href" );
}
else
{
resultObjectCitation[i] = 0;
}
});
var resultObjectCombined = new Array(elemNumber);
for (i = 0; i < elemNumber; i++) {
resultObjectCombined[i]=
{"x": resultObjectYear[i],
"y": resultObjectCitation[i],
"name": resultObject[i],
"url" : resultObjectUrl[i],
"url_citation" : resultObjectCitationLink[i]
}
};
//Cloning google navigation to the top below the chart
var itm = document.getElementById("gs_n");
if (itm != null)
{
var cln = itm.cloneNode(true);
$("#gs_ccl").prepend(cln);
}
//end clone
$("#gs_ccl").prepend("<div id='container'> text to be replaced </div>"); // the div for the chart
document.getElementById("container").style.border = "thin solid #000000"; //setting border for the chart
chart = new Highcharts.Chart({
chart: { renderTo:'container', defaultSeriesType: 'scatter', zoomType: 'xy' },
legend: { align: 'left', backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF', borderWidth: 1, floating: true, layout: 'vertical', verticalAlign: 'top', x: 100, y: 50 },
plotOptions: {
series: {
cursor: 'pointer',
point: {
events: {
click: function (event) {
//alert(this.name + ' clicked\n' +
// 'Alt: ' + event.altKey + '\n' +
// 'Control: ' + event.ctrlKey + '\n' +
//'Shift: ' + event.shiftKey + '\n');
if(event.altKey)
{
if (typeof this.options.url_citation != "undefined")
{
window.location.href = this.options.url_citation;
}
else
{
alert("no citation");
}
}
else if (event.ctrlKey)
{
var linksForScroll = $('a[href="'+ this.options.url +'"]').first();
linksForScroll.get(0).scrollIntoView(); // "get" to get DOM element instead of JQuery
$('a[href="'+ this.options.url +'"]').each(function()
{
$(this).parent().parent().fadeOut("slow");
$(this).parent().parent().fadeIn("slow");
}
);
// Changed because PDF links were the same as the one on the right
//linksForScroll.fadeOut("slow");
//linksForScroll.fadeIn("slow");
}
else
{
window.location.href = this.options.url;
}
}
}
}
},
scatter: { marker: { radius: 5, states: { hover: { enabled: true, lineColor: '#646464' } } }, states: { hover: { enabled: false } } } },
subtitle: { text: chartSubtitleText},
title: { text: 'Click for the paper, alt+click for citations, ctrl+click for scroll' },
tooltip: {
style: {
padding: 10,
fontWeight: 'bold',
fontSize: '14px',
},
formatter: function() {return this.point.name +', year: '+ Math.round(this.x) +', citation: '+ this.y +' ' + ' ' ; } },
Axis: { allowDecimals : false, endOnTick: true, showLastLabel: true, startOnTick: true, title: { text: 'year ' } },
yAxis: { min : 0, title: { text: 'Citation' }, allowDecimals : false,
labels: {
style: {
color: '#525151',
font: '14px Helvetica',
fontWeight: 'bold'
},
formatter: function () {
return this.value;
}
},
}, //, type: 'logarithmic' },
series: [{ data: [{ name: 'OQLC Extending C with an Object Query Capability', x: 1995, y: 14 }, { name: 'Transaction Management in Multidatabase Systems', x: 1995, y: 22 }, { name: 'Overview of the ADDS System', x: 1995, y: 0 }, { name: 'Multimedia Information Systems Issues and Approaches', x: 1995, y: 25 }, { name: 'Active Database Systems', x: 1995, y: 0 }], name: 'Cat1', color: 'rgba(0, 100, 0, .5)' }]//'rgba(223, 83, 83, .5)' }]
});
chart.series[0].setData(resultObjectCombined);