🔬 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

🔧 Input

• Author Search Query - Search for researchers by name (e.g. "Yoshua Bengio"). Use this or Author IDs, not both
• Author IDs - Direct lookup using Semantic Scholar author IDs for precise targeting
• Max Items - Free users limited to 100, paid users up to 1,000,000 results
• Include Papers - Enable to collect each researcher's complete publication list (increases runtime)

Example input:

{
  "query": "Yoshua Bengio",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "includePapers": true
}

📊 Output

Each researcher profile includes up to 12 data fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

👤 Researcher Name	🔗 Profile URL	🎓 Author ID
📊 H-Index	📚 Citation Count	📈 Paper Count
🏢 Affiliations	🌐 Homepage	📖 Publication List
🔗 External IDs	📅 Scraped Date	⚠️ Error Message

💎 Why Choose the Semantic Scholar Author Profiles Scraper?

Feature	Our Actor	Similar Tools
Search researchers by name	✔️	❌
Direct lookup by author ID	✔️	❌
H-index and citation metrics	✔️	Partial
Complete affiliation data	✔️	❌
Full publication list included	✔️	❌
Automatic pagination	✔️	❌
No authentication setup required	✔️	❌
Free tier supports 100 results	✔️	❌
Paid users up to 1,000,000 results	✔️	❌
Retry logic for rate limits	✔️	❌
Export as JSON, CSV, Excel	✔️	✔️

📋 How to Use

No technical skills required. Follow these simple steps:

1. Sign Up: Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Find the Tool: Search for "Semantic Scholar Author Profiles Scraper" in the Apify Store and configure your input
3. Run It: Click "Start" and watch your results appear

That's it. No coding, no setup, no complicated configuration. Now you can export your data in CSV, Excel, or JSON format.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 📊 Research Librarian - Monitor h-index trends for faculty members to identify top performers for promotion decisions
• 💼 Grant Program Manager - Build researcher databases by institution to target high-impact scientists for funding campaigns
• 🔬 Competitive Intelligence Analyst - Track citation metrics for competitor research teams to benchmark innovation capacity

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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🚀 Ready to Start?

Create a free account with $5 credit and collect your first 100 results for free. No coding, no setup.

🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify support page for documentation and tutorials
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⚠️ 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.