Engineering · 3 min read · April 29, 2026
CiteRadar maps researcher influence across institutions and geography
Open-source tool transforms Google Scholar profiles into structured citation networks with geographic visualization and author metadata enrichment.
CiteRadar extracts citation networks from Google Scholar and visualizes researcher influence geographically with disambiguated author metadata.
- — Accepts single Google Scholar ID; outputs publication list, citing papers, ranked authors, statistics, and interactive world map.
- — Integrates five data sources: Google Scholar, OpenAlex, CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, OpenStreetMap Nominatim.
- — Solves Unicode parsing bug in Scholar HTML that corrupts venue and year metadata.
- — Implements two-stage author disambiguation to prevent same-name entity merging errors (up to 9x h-index misattribution).
- — Converts OpenAlex URLs to API endpoints, raising location data coverage from 0% to ~60%.
- — Generates self-contained HTML map with per-city researcher popups using logarithmic scaling.
- — Addresses gap in accessible bibliometric tools; existing platforms require institutional subscriptions or hide granular metadata.
Frequently asked
- CiteRadar integrates five sources: Google Scholar (publication and citation data), OpenAlex (author metadata and affiliations), CrossRef (DOI and publication details), Semantic Scholar (additional citation context), and OpenStreetMap Nominatim (geographic coordinates). This multi-source approach reduces reliance on any single database and improves metadata completeness.