Scholar Citations

Traverse the citation graph of a research paper via OpenAlex. Two directions:

• References — what this paper cites (its intellectual ancestry)
• Citations — what cites this paper (its intellectual descendants)

One subprocess call returns a structured list of papers with titles, abstracts, citation counts, and external IDs.

Usage

# References — what this paper cites
python3 scripts/scholar_citations.py references 2501.11120 --limit 100

# Citations — what cites this paper
python3 scripts/scholar_citations.py citations 2501.11120 --limit 100