🔬 Semantic Scholar Author Profiles Scraper

Collect academic researcher profiles from Semantic Scholar with h-index, citation counts, affiliations, and publication data - without coding. Perfect for research teams, librarians, and competitive intelligence analysts monitoring researcher trends and building researcher databases.

The Semantic Scholar Author Profiles Scraper collects up to 1,000,000 researcher profiles with h-index, citations, and affiliations - simple to use, no setup required.

✨ What Does It Do

• 📊 H-Index - Understand researcher impact with the h-index metric
• 📚 Citation Count - Track total citations across a researcher's entire body of work
• 📝 Paper Count - See how many publications each researcher has published
• 🏢 Affiliations - Discover which universities or institutions researchers are associated with
• 📖 Papers List - Get full publication data including titles, years, venues, and citation counts
• 🔗 External IDs - Capture identifiers like ORCID, MAG ID, and other research databases
• 🌐 Researcher Homepage - Extract links to personal websites and research profiles

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: affiliations, authorId, citationCount, externalIds, hIndex, homepage, name, paperCount, papers, results, scrapedAt, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Semantic Scholar Author Profiles Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Semantic Scholar or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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