myADS

myADS is a simple package to keep track of citations to your (and other authors) papers.

It both reports the authors current paper citation metrics, and checks for any new cites to the authors papers since the last time of checking.

Once installed you can always run myads --help to see a list of available commands.

Installation

The easiest method is to install directly from PyPi via:

pip install myads

From source

To install from source:

• Clone the repository using git clone https://github.com/stuartmcalpine/myADS.git
• Navigate to the myADS folder
• Install using pip install .

Getting set up

myADS can keep track of the citations for multiple authors. Two steps before you get started:

• Initialize the database
• Add your authors you want to track to the database
• Add your ADS API token to the database

Initialize the database

The database needs a one time initialization. To do this run

myads initialize

which will create a sqlite database at $HOME/myADS_database.db.

Adding a author to the database

Once myADS is installed you can add the authors you wish to track using:

myads author add

You will be prompted to enter a first and last name, and an optional ORCID (however it is recommended you add this for each author when possible).

Removing a author from the database

You can remove authors from the tracking database using:

myads author remove <author id>

You can get a list of author IDs by typing:

myads author list

Adding your ADS API token

You must add your ADS API token so the package can query on your behalf.

To add it run:

myads token add <YOUR-API-TOKEN-HERE>

Usage

Citation reporter

If you run myads report you will get a report of all your tracked authors current citations, e.g.,

Reporting cites for Stuart McAlpine...
+----------------------------------------------------+--------------+---------------+---------------------+
| Title                                              | Citations    | Publication   | Bibcode             |
|                                                    | (per year)   | Date          |                     |
+====================================================+==============+===============+=====================+
| Galaxy mergers in EAGLE do not induce a            | 34 (12.0)    | 2020-06-00    | 2020MNRAS.494.5713M |
| significant amount of black hole growth yet do     |              |               |                     |
| increase the rate of luminous AGN                  |              |               |                     |
+----------------------------------------------------+--------------+---------------+---------------------+

Citation tracker

If you run myads check it will tell you any papers that have cited your tracked authors papers since the last call.

The first time you run this it will create a local database of your citations. From then on it will update the local database with your new cites and report the changes, e.g.,

 1 new cite(s) for Galaxy mergers in EAGLE do not induce a significant amount of black hole growth yet do increase the rate of luminous AGN
+----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+------------+---------------------+
| Title                                  | Authors                              | Date       | Bibcode             |
+========================================+======================================+============+=====================+
| The breakBRD Breakdown: Using          | ['Kopenhafer, Claire', 'Starkenburg, | 2020-11-01 | 2020ApJ...903..143K |
| IllustrisTNG to Track the Quenching of | Tjitske K.', 'Tonnesen, Stephanie',  |            |                     |
| an Observationally Motivated Sample of | 'Tuttle, Sarah']                     |            |                     |
| Centrally Star-forming Galaxies        |                                      |            |                     |
+----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+------------+---------------------+