# Changelog of RISS Scraper: 학술연구정보서비스 Theses & University Leaderboard (`getascraper/riss-scraper`) Actor

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

## Changelog

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

### \[0.1] - 2026-09-19

#### Added

- 🚀 Initial release: search RISS (학술연구정보서비스), Korea's national thesis and academic-paper
  database, across domestic journal articles, theses/dissertations, and overseas journal articles.
- 🏆 Added the University Research Output Leaderboard, a dedicated dataset view ranking which
  Korean universities are most active on your search topic, by real output volume and category
  mix (domestic journal, thesis, overseas journal), at no extra charge over the main results.
- 📊 Added a Category Breakdown view for a quick top-line read on how a topic splits across
  domestic journal articles, theses, and overseas journal articles.
- ✨ Added full-record output per result: title, author, university/publisher, publication year,
  degree type (for theses), Korean and English abstracts, reference count, and similar-researcher
  count, whenever RISS itself provides them.
- 🔁 Added a monitor mode (`Only New Theses/Papers`) that reports just the newly-indexed results
  on a saved search when the Actor is re-run on a schedule, instead of the same results every time.
- 🛡️ Added resilient retry handling tuned to RISS's own disclosed rate-limiting behavior, so
  occasional dropped connections are absorbed automatically rather than failing a run.
- 🔒 Added free-tier usage limits (item cap, daily run cap, and a short cooldown between runs) to
  keep the Actor sustainable for everyone.