Preferences: Google Scholar Profile
Preference settings for the Google Scholar Profile data source
NOTE: This dialog box was restricted from Publish or Perish 6.36 to prevent abuse. Communication with this data source uses preset defaults for most settings from this release onward.
This dialog box appears when you choose the Tools > Preferences command from the main menu and go to the Google Scholar Profile tab. It allows you to edit a number of settings that affect the way Publish or Perish deals with queries to Google Scholar when it retrieves a specific author profile.
Note: The options in this dialog box are intended for users who are familiar with data sources such as Google Scholar and client-server communication using the HTTP[S] protocol. If you are not, then you are strongly advised to leave these options at their default values unless specifically instructed otherwise.
General
This box contains general options relating to the way Publish or Perish issues queries to Google Scholar.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Query URL | Enter the URL that Publish or Perish should use to perform Google Scholar Profile queries. |
| User-Agent string |
Set the HTTP User-Agent string that Publish or Perish uses to identify itself to Google Scholar. See User-Agent string syntax for details. |
Request rate limiter
This box contains options that determine how Publish or Perish limits the rate at which requests are sent to Google Scholar. Because Google Scholar Profile queries use the same underlying data source as plain Google Scholar queries, most of the options in this section are grayed out and should be adjusted on the Preferences: Google Scholar tab instead.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Maximum number of results per query |
Enter the maximum number of results that Publish or Perish should retrieve for each author profile query. Google Scholar never returns more than 1000 results (and usually returns fewer), but you can set a lower maximum if you are only interested in the most relevant results for each query. This also reduces the total number of requests that Publish or Perish sends to Google Scholar. |
| Maximum request rate <n> requests/minute |
Not available in this dialog box; see the Preferences: Google Scholar tab instead. |
| Use adaptive request rate | Not available in this dialog box; see the Preferences: Google Scholar tab instead. |
| Respond to CAPTCHAs | Not available in this dialog box; see the Preferences: Google Scholar tab instead. |
| Show request rate warnings | Not available in this dialog box; see the Preferences: Google Scholar tab instead. |
| Show Yellow warning if rate exceeds <n> requests/hour |
Not available in this dialog box; see the Preferences: Google Scholar tab instead. |
| Show Red warning if rate exceeds <n> requests/hour |
Not available in this dialog box; see the Preferences: Google Scholar tab instead. |
| Keep cached results for <n> days |
Enter the number of days to keep the query results from queries. The longer this period, the fewer accesses are required to satisfy repeated queries. Any updates in the query results only become visible after the cache period has expired, so you don't want to make this period too long. |
Other options
The following additional options are available in the form of push buttons:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Reset to defaults | Click this button to reset all fields to their "factory" defaults. This is useful if you have made changes, but decide to start from a known base again. |
Copyright © 2022 David Adams. All rights reserved. Page last modified on Thu 2 Jun 2022 11:23
Web master of Harzing.com and developer of the Publish or Perish software, among other things. He holds BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering, a PhD in Operations Research, and likes to watch academic life from a safe distance.
