Change Log

4.1

2024-07-27

  • In CitationOverview(), fix bug with implicit parameter date, and make this parameter explicit. Include parameter date in the cache file name.

  • In AbstractRetrieval().authors, add new field “collaboration_id” (sort of a hash) and remove field “collaboration”, and use field “indexed_name” for the name of the collaboration.

  • Unescape all text fields in all classes via html_unescape() using optional parameter (default is always True).

  • In ScousSearch(), enable keyword parameter count.

  • In CitationOverview(), remove deprecated parameter eid and deprecate parameters start and end.

  • In AffiliationSearch() and AuthorSearch()`, remove deprecated parameter count.

  • Fix bug with cache file name generation for CitationOverview() when using parameter citation.

  • Fix bug with creating empty configuration file in default location.

  • Fix code examples w.r.t. the init() function.

4.0

2024-05-25

  • Introduce mandatory pybliometrics.scopus.init() function for start-up.

  • Introduce new view ENTITLED for AbstractRetrieval(), AffiliationRetrieval(), AuthorRetrieval() and ScopusSearch().

  • In AffiliationRetrieval.name_variants, return None instead of an empty list.

  • In AffiliationSearch.affiliations, field parent is empty when the returned value is ‘0’.

  • In AuthorRetrieval.name_variants, field doc_count is always integer.

  • Fix bug in AbstractRetrieval().__str__ resulting from missing citations.

  • Fix bug in AbstractRetrieval().references resulting from malformatted reference information.

  • Fix bug in CitationOverview().cc resulting from missing citations.

3.6

2023-12-08

  • In AbstractRetrieval(view=”FULL”).references, return all references, not just the first 40.

  • In AbstractRetrieval().issn, always return a namedtuple indicating the type of the returned ISSN.

  • In AuthorRetrieval(view=”LIGHT”).affiliation_current, parse information.

  • In CitationOverview(), rename property sourceName to sortTitle in accordance with Scopus’ documentation.

  • In SerialTitle().citescoreyearinfolist, always return a namedtuple.

  • In SerialTitle(view=”CITESCORE”).citescoreyearinfolist, provide detailed yearly information.

  • In all classes, fix or provide __str__ where possible.

  • Improve all docstrings, add proper format, add code-copy button.

  • Update accepted id types of PlumXMetrics().

  • In CitationOverview().cc, fix bug due to missing citations.

  • In SerialTitle().citescoreyearinfolist, fix bug with missing current and/or tracker metric.

3.5.2

2023-04-22

  • Drop simpleJSON code and dependency.

  • Fix bug related to wrong dependency declaration.

3.5.1

2023-04-04

  • Fix bug related to installation files.

  • Use importlib to generate version (except for Sphinx).

3.5.0

2023-04-03

  • Introduce ScopusServerError to replace all Scopus5XXErrors.

  • Change default location of configuration file and results cache to comply with XDG.

  • Automatically retry connection on most common 5xx errors.

  • Update documentation w.r.t. to configuration.

  • In SerialTitle(), add new property “yearly_data”.

  • In SerialTitle(), allow for view “CITESCORE”, remove view “BASIC”.

  • In AbstractRetrieval().references, add field “text” again.

  • Fig bug with inconsistent reference parsing in AbstractRetrieval().

  • Fig bug causing one excess search query for all search classes.

  • Fix bug caused by non-ASCII characters in results.

  • Switch to setuptools_scm instead of pbr for distribution and replace setup.cfg and setup.py by pyproject.toml.

3.4.0

2022-06-15

  • Implement requests timeout via configuration file (default: 20 seconds).

  • Introduce new exception Scopus407Error.

  • In AbstractRetrieval().references, add new field “coverDate” and remove field “text”.

  • In AbstractRetrieval().references, deduplicate list of authors.

  • Fix bug in AuthorRetrieval().classificationgroup with non-digits.

3.3.0

2022-03-22

  • Add support for Python 3.10.

  • Allow for arbitrary keywords in all classes.

  • Allow for individual API key and InstToken when initiating any class (via paramters apikey and insttoken), which overrides the values retrieved form the configuration file.

  • In AbstractRetrieval(), add new properties copyright, copyright_type and date_created.

  • In ScopusSearch().auth_afid, return None instead of empty list when there are no affiliation information.

  • Fix bug with AbstractRetrieval().authorgroup for collaborations.

  • In ScopusSearch(), fix bug with properties .freetoread and .freetoreadLabel resulting from non-standard format.

3.2.0

2022-01-02

  • In ScopusSearch().results, add fields “freetoread” and “freetoreadlabel”.

  • In AbstractRetrieval().authorgroup, add field “orcid”.

  • In AuthorSearch().authors, add field “orcid”.

  • In create_config(), add parameters “keys” and “instoken” for usage in workflows under CI.

  • Adapt timestamp to Scopus changes in .get_key_reset_time() method.

  • Improve documentation w.r.t. to the configuration file.

  • Fix bug with generation of configuration file.

  • Fix bug with custom location of configuration file.

  • Fix bug in SerialTitle().citescoreinfolist for discontinued sources.

3.1.0

2021-10-16

  • In AbstractRetrieval().funding, rename field “id” to “agency_id”, add field “funding_id” and change order.

  • Introduce new exceptions Scopus504Error and document Scopus413Error.

  • Better document SerialTitle() w.r.t. to journal metrics.

  • Correct document of where to find the cache folder since pybliometrics 3.x.

3.0.1

2021-08-01

  • Fix bug with generation of configuration file.

  • Fix bug with all search classes not testing the number of results before downloading.

  • Fix bug with deprecation warning of CitationOverview().

3.0

2021-07-18

  • Implement throttling as per Scopus’ definition.

  • Enable type hints.

  • Revamp documentation: Document all classes with examples on the same page in the new section “Classes”; Add new section “Access” using subsections previously listed under “Tips”.

  • For the following properties, type str changed to numeric type (either as scalar or within a container): AbstractRetrieval().authorgroup.affiliation_id, AbstractRetrieval().authorgroup.dep_id and AbstractRetrieval().authorgroup.auid, AbstractRetrieval().authors.id, AbstractRetrieval().authors.auid, AbstractRetrieval().citedby_count, AbstractRetrieval().confcode AbstractRetrieval().identifier, AbstractRetrieval().openaccess, AbstractRetrieval().pubmed_id, AbstractRetrieval().source_id, AbstractRetrieval().subject_areas.code AffiliationRetrieval().author_count, AffiliationRetrieval().document_count, AffiliationRetrieval().identifier, AffiliationRetrieval().name_variants.doc_count, AffiliationSearch().affiliations.documents, AuthorRetrieval().affiliation_current.id and AuthorRetrieval().affiliation_current.parent, AuthorRetrieval().affiliation_history.id and AuthorRetrieval().affiliation_history.parent, AuthorRetrieval().citation_count, AuthorRetrieval().cited_by_count, AuthorRetrieval().classificationgroup, AuthorRetrieval().coauthor_count, AuthorRetrieval().document_count, AuthorRetrieval().historical_identifier, AuthorRetrieval().identifier, AuthorRetrieval().subject_areas.code, AuthorSearch().authors.documents, ScopusSearch().results.citedby_count and ScopusSearch().results.openaccess, SerialTitle().citescoreyearinfolist, SerialTitle().sjrlist, SerialTitle().sniplist, SerialTitle().source_id, SerialTitle().subject_area.code.

  • The type of AbstractRetrieval().authors.affiliation is now a string joining all affiliation IDs on “;”.

  • In AffiliationSearch() and AuthorSearch(), parameter count is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. There is no substitute.

  • In AbstractRetrieval(), property .correspondence is now a list.

  • In CitationOverview(), parameter eid is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Instead, the class now accepts a list of up to 25 identifiers (Scopus ID, DOI, PII or Pubmed ID) and returns individual citation trajectories for each of the documents.

  • In CitationOverview(), all current properties now return lists, except for .h_index, which remains int.

  • In CitationOverview(), add new properties .columnTotal, .grandTotal, .laterColumnTotal, prevColumnTotal, .rangeColumnTotal.

  • In CitationOverview(), change the cache file name to md5-hash of the used identifiers plus the citation type information (e.g., when self-citations are excluded).

  • In AffiliationRetrieval(), add property .status.

  • In SubjectClassifications(), the default cache file path now goes without the folder “STANDARD”.

  • The default folder for the configuration file become .pybliometrics instead of .scopus, but if .scopus exists, pybliometrics will use this folder. New installations will only use .pybliometrics. The default path for the cache file folders has become .pybliometrics/Scopus/.

  • Allow for kwds to be passed on in the following classes: AffiliationRetrieval(), AffiliationSearch(), AuthorSearch(), CitationOverview(), SubjectClassifications().

  • For search classes, change error message when the search result size exceeds 5k. The possiblity to change this number has been removed.

  • In all classes, raise ValueError if parameter refresh is neither int nor bool.

  • In all classes, harmonize error message documentation and order of parameters.

  • Require tqdm package to print progress bars.

  • Class ContentAffiliationRetrieval() has been removed.

  • Fix bug that cached an empty file when download=False using any Search class.

2.9.1

2021-02-25

  • Allow for the LIGHT view in AffiliationRetrieval() to retrieve fewer information.

  • Allow for the METRICS, LIGHT and STANDARD views in AuthorRetrieval() to retrieve fewer information.

  • In AuthorRetrieval().h_index and AuthorRetrieval().coauthor_count, return None instead of 0 as default value.

2.9

2021-02-11

  • New class SubjectClassifications() to interact with the Subject Classifications API.

  • In CitationOverview(), add optional parameter citation to allow for exlusion of self-citations or those of books.

  • Fix links in class docstrings.

2.8

2021-01-28

  • Class ContentAffiliationRetrieval() has been renamed to AffiliationRetrieval(); ContentAffiliationRetrieval() will remain until 3.0 but it will raise a Warning.

  • Add parameter years to SerialTitle(), to retrieve journal metrics for specific years.

  • Fix documentation on InstToken.

  • Fix bug with reading empty queries.

2.7.2

2020-12-08

  • Fix bug with writing empty results of search classes.

  • In AuthorRetrieval(), allow for kwds to be passed on to the retrieval.

  • Update some documentation w.r.t. to differences between the API and the website.

2.7.1

2020-11-30

  • Always dump minified json.

  • Introduce new exceptions: Scopus413Error and Scopus502Error.

  • Change print dunder functions to allow for singleton counts.

  • In ScopusSearch(), respect ‘count’ argument when passed as keyword.

  • Update some documentation and fix internal links.

  • In AuthorRetrieval(), fix bug with private variable.

2.7

2020-09-25

  • Introduce new exception: Scopus414Error.

  • In AuthorRetrieval(), add new property .alias.

  • In AbstractRetrieval(), add new properties .subtype and .subtypedescription.

  • Fix bug with kwds in all search classes accidentally not passed on requests.

2.6.3

2020-08-04

  • In AbstractRetrieval(), add new properties .openaccess and .openaccessFlag.

  • In AuthorSearch().__str__, fix bug with missing names.

  • In AuthorRetrieval().__str__, fix bug with already removed property .journal-history.

  • For all search classes, do not create an empty file when download=False.

2.6.2

2020-07-21

  • In AuthorRetrieval(), remove property .journal-history as it was removed from the API.

  • Fix bug with duplicate entries in multi-page search results with cursors.

2.6.1

2020-07-14

  • Show date of retrieval when printing any class object.

  • Refactor some of the information when printing class objects.

  • Fix bug related to missing requests header with empty results.

  • Fix bug with missing source history when printing an AuthorRetrieval() object.

2.6

2020-07-10

  • Add support for multiple keys in the configuration file, and replace depleted keys automatically.

  • In all classes, add methods .get_key_remaining_quota() and .get_key_reset_time() to get the remaining calls of the current key and the time when the current key will be reset, relative to the last actual request.

  • Provide link examples in reference of each class.

  • In ScopusSearch().results, use empty strings for missing affiliations (e.g. non-org profile affiliations) when information in concatenated.

  • Fix bug in ScopusSearch().results when affiliation information has the wrong type (e.g. boolean).

2.5

2020-05-25

  • New class SerialSearch() to search via the Serial Title API.

  • Add new exception Scopus403Error for forbidden access.

  • Fix bug with AuthorRetrieval().get_coauthors() only returning the first 25 results.

  • Fix bug with progress bar in search classes not showing.

2.4

2020-04-15

  • PlumXMetrics() class to access the PlumX Metrics API.

  • Fix and update the str dunder functions of all classes.

  • Fix bug with raising a ScopusException when the resulting json is malformatted.

2.3.2

2020-03-29

  • In AuthorRetrieval().estimate_uniqueness(), allow for args and fix documentation.

  • Fix bug with missing file modification time stamp.

2.3.1

2020-03-29

  • In AuthorRetrieval().get_coauthors(), return None instead of empty list when there are no coauthors.

  • Improve warning and error messages.

  • Improve all documentation.

2.3

2020-03-22

  • Support for python 2.7 has ended.

  • Introduce Base() class from which all classes inherit the following two methods: .get_cache_file_age() and .get_cache_file_mdate().

  • In all classes, refresh parameter accepts an integer which will refresh the cached file if the last modification date is longer than that number of days ago.

  • Provide extensive affiliation information in AuthorRetrieval().affiliation_current and AuthorRetrieval().affiliation_history as namedtuples.

  • Provide more robust example of the “Download Machine” in the documentation.

  • Fix typos and formatting errors in the documentation.

  • In AbstractRetrieval().__str__, fix bug due to missing authors and affiliations.

2.2.2

2019-12-29

  • EIDs starting with “1-s2.0-” are automatically detected as EID as well.

  • In ScopusSearch().results add field “subtypeDescription”.

  • In AbstractRetrieval().idxterms return None instead of empty lists.

  • In AbstractRetrieval().confdate return None instead of list with tuples with None.

  • Add UserWarning for change of type of AuthorRetrieval().affiliation_current and AuthorRetrieval().affiliation_history.

2.2.1

2019-09-09

  • Add user agent string to evaluate usage.

  • Fix bug with missing journal metrics in SerialTitle().

2.2

2019-08-21

  • Add parameters integrity_fields and integrity_action to all search classes to avoid KeyErrors of missing fields.

  • Add progress bar to all search classes indicating download progress.

  • Fix bug with missing entries in author-group list in AbstractRetrieval().

2.1.3

2019-07-16

  • Fix bug detecting DOIs without slash in AbstractRetrieval().

  • Fix bug related to creating the config file.

2.1.2

2019-07-09

  • Fix bugs arising from passing duplicate parameters through kwds in Search classes.

  • Fix bug in AbstractRetrieval().references with duplicte volume/issue information from Scopus.

  • Fix bug with wrong object type when using AuthorRetrieval().get_coauthors().

2.1.1

2019-06-26

  • New properties for AbstractRetrieval(): pii and pubmed_id.

  • Improve documentation (AbstractRetrieval().idxterms and download machine).

  • Fix bug forcing the presence of the package scopus.

2.1.0

2019-06-17

  • Rename package to pybliometrics.

  • In all search classes, properties return None if download=False instead of raising an error.

2.0.1

2019-06-08

  • In AbstractRetrieval().references, add field “type” for the status of the parsed reference.

  • Raise proper Scopus.exception even when no Scopus-supplied error message exists.

  • In AbstractRetrieval(), update docstrings.

  • Fix bug related to creating the config when the config doesn’t exist.

  • Fix bug when using AbstractRetrieval() in Python 2.

2.0

2019-05-28

  • Cache files in subfolders according to the used view.

  • Add method .estimate_uniqueness() to AuthorRetrieval() to estimate how unique an author profile is.

  • Use error message provided by Scopus for ScopusErrors.

  • Add tip how to deal with “KeyError: ‘eid’”.

  • Remove deprecated classes, modules, parameters and attributes. Removed deprecated classes are ScopusAbstract(), ScopusAffiliation(), ScopusAuthor() and report(). Removed deprecated parameters are start and max_entries in AuthorSearch() and AffiliationSearch(). Removed deprecated attributes include only ScopusSearch.EIDS.

1.6.1

2019-05-14

  • Add support for proxies.

  • In AbstractRetrieval().correspondence, turn values into proper strings.

  • Fix bug when creating the config file.

1.6

2019-05-09

  • SerialTitle() class to access the Serial Title API.

  • In all search classes, add method .get_results_size() to return the number of matches.

  • In all search classes, add boolean parameter download to not download the results (but get the number of matches anyways).

  • In AbstractRetrieval().authorgroup, rename field “city-group” to “city” and add new fields: “dptid”, “postalcode”, “addresspart”.

  • In AbstractRetrieval().authorgroup, fix bug with missing affiliation information.

  • In all search classes, remove deprecated parameter start.

1.5

2019-05-16

  • Add parameter subscriber to ScopusSearch() class to set request parameters to maximum values depending on view.

  • Add support for cursor-navigation in searches.

  • Add __citation__ dunder.

  • Allow for the REF view in AbstractRetrieval() to obtain detailed information on referenced items.

  • New properties for AuthorRetrieval(): historical_identifier and status.

  • Allow ScopusSearch() to pass on kwds as query params.

  • Deprecate start and max_entries parameters in AffiliationSearch() and AuthorSearch().

  • Deprecate start parameter in ScopusSearch() class.

  • Fix bug with ContentAffiliationRetrieval().__str__.

  • Fix bugs in AbstractRetrieval() related to missing information obtained from Scopus.

1.4.3

2019-02-12

  • Fix bug with empty value in AbstractRetrieval().language.

  • Add matplotlib as requirement.

1.4.2

2019-02-05

  • Fix bug with TypeErrors when navigating a path in the json.

  • Fix bug with missing author information in AbstractRetrieval().authors.

  • Fix bug with missing title in AbstractRetrieval().title.

1.4.1

2019-01-24

  • Add citation.

  • Render reports class deprecated.

  • Add str-dunder function for CitationOverview() class.

1.4

2019-01-17

  • Use number of results from first search query rather than from separate query.

  • Write empty file if search is empty.

  • In ScopusSearch().results, add new fields: “affilname”, “affiliation_city”, “affiliation_country”, “article_number”, “author_count”, “authkeywords”, “eIssn”, “description”, “fund_acr”, “fund_no”, “fund_sponsor”, “pubmed_id”.

  • In ScopusSearch().results, rename the following fields: “names” to “author_names”, “authid” to “author_ids”, “afid” to “author_afids”.

  • In ScopusSearch(), add parameter view to specify the view and number of entries per query run.

  • In AbstractRetrieval().affiliation, AbstractRetrieval().authorgroup, AbstractRetrieval().authors, AbstractRetrieval().subject_areas, AffiliationSearch().affiliations, AuthorRetrieval().classificationgroup, AuthorRetrieval().journal_history, AuthorRetrieval().name_variants, AuthorSearch().authors, CitationOverview().authors and ScopusSearch().results return None if the result list is empty, instead of an empty list.

  • In AbstractRetrieval().chemicals, fix bug with missing values for cas-registry-number.

  • Allow for the STANDARD view in ScopusSearch() to increase number of results per query.

  • Refactor all classes internally for maintainability and readability.

  • Register project with Code Climate.

1.3.1

2018-12-11

  • Extend tests for ScopusSearch().

  • Fix bug with zero search results.

  • Open cached search files in binary mode.

  • Fix bug in AbstractRetrieval() with missing affiliation names in .authorgroup.

1.3

2018-12-04

  • Fix bugs related to empty values or missing keys in AuthorRetrieval() (.affiliation_history, .get_coauthors(), .journal_history, .name_variant, preferred_name, .subject_area) and in ScopusSearch() (.results).

  • Introduce Retrieval() superclass for all retrieval and content classes.

  • Refactor Search() superclass and all search classes internally.

  • Implement scopus-specific exceptions.

1.2

2018-10-24

  • In AbstractRetrieval(), users can now initate the class with DOI, Scopus ID, PII or Pubmed ID. Parameter EID has hence been deprecatd in favor of the new parameter identifier.

  • New properties for AbstractRetrieval(): chemicals, contributor_group, funding, funding_text, isbn, sequencebank.

  • In ContentAffiliationRetrieval(), return `None rather than empty dict when no address is provided.

  • In AbstractRetrieval().confsponsor, return `None when no confsponsor is provided.

  • In ScopusSearch().results, return “afid” as part of namedtuple.

  • Fix bug in AbstractRetrieval().authorgroup related to affiliation groups without authors.

  • Fix bug in AbstractRetrieval().affiliation related to affiliations without Scopus ID.

  • Fix bugs in ScopusSearch().results with duplicate authors, missing titles and unusual coverDates.

  • AuthorRetrieval() warns User via UserWarnings if the supplied author ID is outdated or if it has been forwarded to a new profile.

1.1

2018-10-07

  • Generate configuration file via separate method, not directly on import.

1.0

2018-10-06

  • New class AbstractRetrieval() to replace ScopusAbstract(), with the following properties renamed: affiliations: affiliation, bibtex: get_bibtex(), citationLanguage: language, citationType: srctype, citingby_url: citingby_link, html: get_html(), ris: get_ris(), latex: get_latex(), scopus_url: scopus_link, subjectAreas: subject_areas.

  • New class AuthorRetrieval() to replace ScopusAuthor(), with the following properties renamed: author_id: identifier, coauthor_url: coauthor_link, current_affiliation: affiliation_current, firstname: given_name, hindex: h_index, lastname: surname, name: indexed_name, ncited_by: cited_by_count, ncoauthors: coauthor_count, ndocuments: document_count, publication_history: journal_history.

  • New class ContentAffiliationRetrieval() to replace ScopusAffiliation(), with the following properties renamed: api_url: self_link, nauthors: author_count, ndocuments: document_count, name: affiliation_name, org_url: org_URL, scopus_id: identifier.

  • Rewrite class ScopusSearch(): new property results, cache search results in json format with hex-ed filename and new method get_eids(), which replaces property EIDS.

  • Use config.ini to store API Key (and if necessary, InstToken) as well as directories.

  • Migration Guide to update code from scopus 0.x to 1.x

0.10

2018-08-14

  • In ScopusAuthor(), refactor generating abstracts lists into get_journal_abstract().

  • New properties for ScopusAbstract(): citedby_url and scopus_url.

  • New property for ScopusAffiliation(): state.

  • Correct property citedby_url from ScopusAuthor().

  • In all retrieval classes, remove underscore properties.

0.9

2018-07-23

  • SearchAffiliation() to access the Affiliation Search API.

  • Fix bug occuring with fields of length one in Author search.

  • ScopusAbstract() returns abstract keywords if present.

  • Refactor search classes to inherit from common auxiliary class.

  • ScopusAffiliation() now accepts EID as well.

0.8

2018-06-18

  • ScopusAuthor() now accepts EID as well.

  • Fix bug occuring with non-existent journal abbreviations.

  • SearchAuthor() class to access the Author Search API.

  • Fix links in examples.

0.7

2018-04-27

  • Use https instead of http wherever possible.

  • Add support for InstToken Authentication via config file.

  • Redirect DOI links to preferred resolver.

0.6

2017-12-12

  • CitationOverview() class to access the Abstract Citation API.

0.5

2017-09-28

  • New properties for ScopusAuthor(): publication_history and subject_areas.

  • Update namespace in ScopusAbstract() to retrieve affiliation information.

  • Complete affiliation information in ScopusAbstract().

0.4.4

2017-09-06

  • Fix bugs related to unicode on Python2.7 and installation on Windows.

0.4.3

2017-08-30

  • Update ScopusAbstract() to reflect change in the API.

0.4.2

2017-08-23

  • Fix bug with generating my_scopus.py on Python 3.

  • In ScopusAbstract(), do not raise TypeErrors for information not present in current view.

0.4.1

2017-08-20

  • Remove unwanted print() statement.

0.4

2017-08-20

  • Use refresh_affiliation parameter in ScopusAuthor().

  • Improve background service to load user’s API key.

  • Ask user for API key if it can’t be found.

  • New property for ScopusAbstract(): citation_count.

0.3.1

2017-08-09

  • Update ScopusAbstract() to reflect change in the API.

0.3.0

2017-08-02

  • Few bugfixes.

  • New property for ScopusAbstract(): abstract.

  • Change latex key in ScopusAbstract().bibtex to <FirstauthorYearTitlefirstwordTitlelastword>.

  • Raise ValueError in ScopusAbstract() if .bibtex or .ris is called on an item whose aggregationType is not Journal.

  • Improved docstrings for ScopusAbstract().

  • New properties for ScopusAffiliation(): api_url, date_created, org_type, org_domain, org_url.

  • In ScopusAffiliation(), the affiliation_id returns the Scopus Affiliation ID from the result rather than the used aff_id.

0.2.1

2017-07-21

  • Some bugfixes.

  • Examples for all classes.

  • Fix typos in docstrings.

  • In ScopusAuthor(), the author_id returns the Scopus Author ID from the result rather than the used author_id.

0.2.0

2017-04-05

  • Several bugfixes.

  • Docstrings for all classes according to numpy standard.

  • Outsourced help functions in module utils.

  • Import classes in __init__ to allow top level import.

  • New methods for ScopusAuthor(): n_yearly_publications().

  • New properties for ScopusAbstract(): citationType, citationLanguage, refcount, references, subjectAreas, website.

  • Raising exception when download status is not ok.

  • Python2.7 compatibility.

0.1.0

2016-02-22

  • Initial release.