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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.

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.

Example

  • Search term: 'bitcoin'
  • Desired time span: 2000 to 2015
  • Command: python term_frequency.py 'bitcoin' 2000 2015
  • Output: out.csv, with the following contents:
year results
... ...
2011 141
2012 292
2013 889
2014 2370
2015 2580

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