# Changelog of J-STAGE Scraper: 学術論文・引用検索 Papers & Citation Leaderboard (`getascraper/jstage-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/getascraper/jstage-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/getascraper/jstage-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

### \[0.1] - 2026-09-18

#### Added

- 🚀 Initial release of J-STAGE Scraper.
- 🏆 Author Leaderboard: ranks the real researchers publishing in your search topic by paper count, with total and average citation counts once citation enrichment is enabled.
- 📚 Journal Leaderboard: ranks the journals publishing in your search topic by paper count and average citation impact.
- ✨ Full per-article export: title (English and Japanese), authors, journal, DOI, ISSN, volume/issue, and publication year, with no login or API key required.
- ➕ Optional abstract and citation enrichment: adds each article's abstract, cited-by count, and reference count on request.
- 🔔 Saved-search monitor mode: only returns articles you have not seen in a previous run.
- 📈 Citation-change tracker: re-checks a saved list of articles and reports how their citation counts moved since the last check.
- 🛡️ Free-tier usage guard to keep the Actor fair and available for everyone.