Convert Publication Source about scholarly HOT 3 CLOSED

Ah, I see. I did not realize the operative property was having a GS profile. That makes more sense. Thanks!

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This is not going to be guaranteed in general, is it? a) not all authors have a Google Scholar profile that is public b) GS is going to link the Google Scholar pages of only the first few authors and not for everyone.

I'd be very happy to consider a PR from you if you could identify me (or any other GS profile) as an author on the first paper on this search result, and get the cites_per_year from my (or any other) profile.

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However, searching returns a pub with source PUBLICATION_SEARCH_SNIPPET and it needs to be AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY.

As you've found out, publications in GS have different properties based on which database the result is fetched from. The Source attribute is meant to denote that, and indicate what other attributes to expect. In general, we leave it applications that build around scholarly to do the conversions that you mentioned here. This is because there are plenty of exceptions to the norm, and it's difficult to handle them all in general without knowing what you as a user are looking for. For e.g., if none of the authors of a paper have a public Google Scholar profile, there's no way to convert a result from PUBLICATION_SEARCH_SNIPPET to AUTHOR_PUBLICATION_ENTRY. So while the latter is usually the more useful one, the former will have to stay because it's the more generic one.

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