Anders suggestion of adding citation information to the Google search API has been noticed by someone at google. Quote:"This is a really interesting suggestion. Could some of you elaborate on the use cases for a Scholar API? What kinds of applications would you make with it? The more the better :)" - Pedro Beltrao from Bookmarklet

If you are interested in this issue please follow the link and add some suggestions in the comments - Pedro Beltrao

I would love to have an API so that I could automatically maintain an online publication list with up-to-date citation counts for every publication. - Lars Juhl Jensen

I'd could port my pubmed toys (http://www.cotch.net/assed/)... except that I probably wouldn't -- I have access to the superior Scopus so tend never to use GS anyway. - Joe Dunckley

@Joe -- superior? All the comparative studies I've seen have indicated that both have their flaws and are best seen as complementary. - Bill Hooker

Integration into other documents (G Docs, etc) would be mine. - Deepak Singh

One of the biggest problems with Google Scholar is that it is hopelessly incomplete, and most scientists don't realize that. They start to happily compare people's citations counts. Bummer if it happens you published a bunch of papers that GS doesn't index.. - Alexander Griekspoor

Has it improved since it launched, Alexander? - Maxine

++ for document integration and if one is being provocative an API that allows you to insert missing abstracts or correct mistakes? - Cameron Neylon

I'd like an API so that I could find all the papers that cited a given reference. - Pierre Lindenbaum

If anything, an API would allow for much easier systematic comparison with other citation services like Scopus/WoS... - Hilary

(cc'd from the original page) +1 to this... Use cases: * Ego-searching. How many times have my articles been cited (lets face it, we all want to know this in real time :) ) * Universal reference format translator. EG, I have a list of references (1..N) in APA...reformat it for me into IEEE. Even better, I'm resubmitting a paper to a different journal that requires a different reference format. The API would take the entire paper as input, and translate citations and references into the new format * +1 to integrating with GDocs. We use GDocs quite a bit to write collaborative papers in my lab. Applications * I'm writing a research lab intranet type social media site. I wanted to add the ability to post citations/articles read, tagging, commenting, bookmarking, etc. One challenge I had was how to link to the article...how to deal with DOI's, access rights, etc. An GScholar API would be one solutions...effectively outsourcing all the access issues to Google (at the cost of an extra click for my - Fitzgerald Steele

being able to query for a specific author by last name first initial OR last name first name would be nice. GS currently fails at this, unfortunately. A search for "william gunn should return even the results where I'm listed as Gunn WG. Pubmed handles this fine. As far as the API goes, it's be nice to have a widget that keeps your citation stats for you (cited by X, Y new this month) etc. - Mr. Gunn

integration into library catalog searches - Jason (not an Argonaut)