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Google Scholar provides papers, citing papers, ready-made citations and researcher profiles with metrics and up to 20 top-cited papers; public access may be temporarily limited.

Get author profile

Get a researcher’s public Google Scholar profile, citation metrics, yearly citations and up to 20 most-cited papers by name. An institution can help distinguish researchers with the same name.

Your information

Researcher’s name, for example Geoffrey Hinton.

Optional institution to select the right person, for example University of Toronto.

1 credit per completed run

The same inputs also work from your code or an AI assistant. See For developers.

Example results

Yoshua Bengio

Citations1.2M
h-index259
i10-index1,111
Citations in the last 5 years777.4K
h-index in the last 5 years211
i10-index in the last 5 years953
Yoshua Bengio

Professor of computer science, University of Montreal , Mila, IVADO, CIFAR

Verified email domain: umontreal.ca

View Google Scholar profile

Research interests

  • Machine learning
  • deep learning
  • artificial intelligence

Citations by year

YearCitations
2,0134.3K
2,0147.3K
2,01513.5K
2,01625.2K
2,01741.8K
2,01867.9K
2,01990.5K
2,020108.2K
2,021121.3K
2,022123.7K
2,023128.6K
2,024136.8K
2,025152.9K
2,026113.7K

Most-cited papers

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About the Google Scholar tool

Google Scholar’s Search papers finds papers using required topic or title words, with optional author, year, and order filters.

Get author profile returns public researcher details and citation metrics from a required name, with an optional institution.

Get citation formats a paper citation by title; List citing papers finds papers citing a title.

Built from scholar.google.com and lite.duckduckgo.com. Last checked Sep 28, 2026.

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Get author profile

1 credit

Get a researcher’s public Google Scholar profile, citation metrics, yearly citations and up to 20 most-cited papers by name. An institution can help distinguish researchers with the same name.

Uses Google Scholar and lite.duckduckgo.com.

What you provide

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
ResearcherresearcherTextRequiredResearcher’s name, for example Geoffrey Hinton.Example: Yoshua Bengio
InstitutioninstitutionTextOptionalOptional institution to select the right person, for example University of Toronto.Example: University of Montreal

What you get

FieldTypeDescription
NamenameTextExample: Yoshua Bengio
Photo Linkphoto_linkTextExample: https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=view_photo&user=kukA0Lc…
Top Paperstop_papersList
Yeartop_papers[].yearNumberExample: 2014
Titletop_papers[].titleTextExample: Generative adversarial nets
Venuetop_papers[].venueTextExample: Advances in neural information processing systems 27
Authorstop_papers[].authorsTextExample: IJ Goodfellow, J Pouget-Abadie, M Mirza, B Xu, D Warde-Farley, S Ozair, ...
Citationstop_papers[].citationsNumberExample: 121371
Page Linktop_papers[].page_linkTextExample: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=kukA0LcAA…
AffiliationaffiliationTextExample: Professor of computer science, University of Montreal , Mila, IVADO, CIFAR
Profile Linkprofile_linkTextExample: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kukA0LcAAAAJ&hl=en
H Index All Timeh_index_all_timeNumberExample: 259
Citations All Timecitations_all_timeNumberExample: 1163331
Citations Per Yearcitations_per_yearList
Yearcitations_per_year[].yearNumberExample: 2013
Countcitations_per_year[].countNumberExample: 4315
I10 Index All Timei10_index_all_timeNumberExample: 1111
Research Interestsresearch_interestsList
H Index Last 5 Yearsh_index_last_5_yearsNumberExample: 211
Verified Email Domainverified_email_domainTextExample: umontreal.ca
Citations Last 5 Yearscitations_last_5_yearsNumberExample: 777420
I10 Index Last 5 Yearsi10_index_last_5_yearsNumberExample: 953

Example result

For Researcher: Yoshua Bengio, Institution: University of Montreal

JSON
{
  "name": "Yoshua Bengio",
  "photo_link": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=view_photo&user=kukA0LcAAAAJ&citpid=3",
  "top_papers": [
    {
      "year": 2014,
      "title": "Generative adversarial nets",
      "venue": "Advances in neural information processing systems 27",
      "authors": "IJ Goodfellow, J Pouget-Abadie, M Mirza, B Xu, D Warde-Farley, S Ozair, ...",
      "citations": 121371,
      "page_link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=kukA0LcAAAAJ&citation_for_view=kukA0LcAAAAJ:i8eIfGGcn98C"
    },
    {
      "year": 2015,
      "title": "Deep learning",
      "venue": "nature 521 (7553), 436-444",
      "authors": "Y LeCun, Y Bengio, G Hinton",
      "citations": 120679,
      "page_link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=kukA0LcAAAAJ&citation_for_view=kukA0LcAAAAJ:naSTrk-c4S8C"
    },
    {
      "year": 2016,
      "title": "Deep learning",
      "venue": "MIT press 1 (2)",
      "authors": "I Goodfellow, Y Bengio, A Courville",
      "citations": 106671,
      "page_link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=kukA0LcAAAAJ&citation_for_view=kukA0LcAAAAJ:orDZ08hpP44C"
    }
  ],
  "affiliation": "Professor of computer science, University of Montreal , Mila, IVADO, CIFAR",
  "profile_link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kukA0LcAAAAJ&hl=en",
  "h_index_all_time": 259,
  "citations_all_time": 1163331,
  "citations_per_year": [
    {
      "year": 2013,
      "count": 4315
    },
    {
      "year": 2014,
      "count": 7262
    },
    {
      "year": 2015,
      "count": 13504
    }
  ],
  "i10_index_all_time": 1111,
  "research_interests": [
    "Machine learning",
    "deep learning",
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "h_index_last_5_years": 211,
  "verified_email_domain": "umontreal.ca",
  "citations_last_5_years": 777420,
  "i10_index_last_5_years": 953
}

Get citation

1 credit

Get a paper’s ready-made Google Scholar citations by title, optionally narrowed by author. Public search results only; Scholar may temporarily limit access.

What you provide

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
TitletitleTextRequiredPaper title to find, for example Attention is all you need.Example: Attention is all you need
AuthorauthorTextOptionalAuthor name to narrow the paper search, for example Ashish Vaswani.Example: Ashish Vaswani

What you get

FieldTypeDescription
ApaapaTextAPA citation in plain text.Example: Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N…
MlamlaTextMLA citation in plain text.Example: Vaswani, Ashish, et al. "Attention is all you need." Advances in neural…
TitletitleTextMatched paper title.Example: Attention is all you need
BibtexbibtexTextBibTeX entry for the paper.Example: @article{vaswani2017attention, title={Attention is all you need}…
ChicagochicagoTextChicago citation in plain text.Example: Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones…
HarvardharvardTextHarvard citation in plain text.Example: Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A.N…
Paper URLpaper_urlTextLink to the matched paper.Example: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/7181-attention-is
VancouvervancouverTextVancouver citation in plain text.Example: Vaswani A, Shazeer N, Parmar N, Uszkoreit J, Jones L, Gomez AN, Kaiser Ł…

Example result

For Title: Attention is all you need, Author: Ashish Vaswani

JSON
{
  "apa": "Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., ... & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in neural information processing systems, 30.",
  "mla": "Vaswani, Ashish, et al. \"Attention is all you need.\" Advances in neural information processing systems 30 (2017).",
  "title": "Attention is all you need",
  "bibtex": "@article{vaswani2017attention,\n  title={Attention is all you need},\n  author={Vaswani, Ashish and Shazeer, Noam and Parmar, Niki and Uszkoreit, Jakob and Jones, Llion and Gomez, Aidan N and Kaiser, {\\…",
  "chicago": "Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin. \"Attention is all you need.\" Advances in neural information processing sy…",
  "harvard": "Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A.N., Kaiser, Ł. and Polosukhin, I., 2017. Attention is all you need. Advances in neural information processing systems, 30.",
  "paper_url": "https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/7181-attention-is",
  "vancouver": "Vaswani A, Shazeer N, Parmar N, Uszkoreit J, Jones L, Gomez AN, Kaiser Ł, Polosukhin I. Attention is all you need. Advances in neural information processing systems. 2017;30."
}

List citing papers

1 credit

Find a paper by title and list public Google Scholar papers that cite it, with citation counts and available PDF links. Results may be temporarily limited by Scholar.

What you provide

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
SortsortTextOptionalOrder of citing papers, for example newest.Example: Newest
TitletitleTextRequiredTitle of the paper whose citing papers you want, for example Deep residual learning for image recognition.Example: Attention is all you need
AuthorauthorTextOptionalAuthor name to distinguish papers with similar titles, for example Kaiming He.Example: Vaswani
Max Resultsmax_resultsNumberOptionalMaximum citing papers to return, for example 20.Example: 4

What you get

FieldTypeDescription
Citing Papersciting_papersListPapers citing the matched paper.
Yearciting_papers[].yearNumberExample: 2026
Titleciting_papers[].titleTextExample: Coarse-to-Fine Long-term Interest Modeling for Generative Recommendation
Venueciting_papers[].venueTextExample: Proceedings of the 20th …
Authorsciting_papers[].authorsTextExample: S Cao , J She, B Zeng, J Liu, C Guo, K Cai …
Paper Linkciting_papers[].paper_linkTextExample: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3773078.3831769
Free PDF Linkciting_papers[].free_pdf_linkTextExample: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.17419
Citation Countciting_papers[].citation_countNumberExample: 0
Matched Paper Titlematched_paper_titleTextTitle of the paper that was matched.Example: Attention is all you need
Total Citation Counttotal_citation_countNumberNumber of papers citing the matched paper shown by Google Scholar.Example: 272137

Example result

For Sort: Newest, Title: Attention is all you need, Author: Vaswani, Max Results: 4

JSON
{
  "citing_papers": [
    {
      "year": 2026,
      "title": "Coarse-to-Fine Long-term Interest Modeling for Generative Recommendation",
      "venue": "Proceedings of the 20th …",
      "authors": "S Cao , J She, B Zeng, J Liu, C Guo, K Cai …",
      "paper_link": "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3773078.3831769",
      "free_pdf_link": null,
      "citation_count": 0
    },
    {
      "year": 2026,
      "title": "MDGR: Masked Diffusion Generative Recommendation",
      "venue": "Proceedings of the 20th …",
      "authors": "L Mu, H Deng , H Xing, J Hu , Y Zhang, X Zeng…",
      "paper_link": "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3773078.3831862",
      "free_pdf_link": null,
      "citation_count": 0
    },
    {
      "year": 2026,
      "title": "Not All Branches Are Equal: Adaptive Semantic ID Construction for Generative Recommendation",
      "venue": "… of the 20th ACM Conference on …",
      "authors": "G Hadad , H Roitman , B Shapira",
      "paper_link": "https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3773078.3831756",
      "free_pdf_link": null,
      "citation_count": 0
    }
  ],
  "matched_paper_title": "Attention is all you need",
  "total_citation_count": 272137
}

Search papers

1 credit

Find academic papers on a topic in Google Scholar, in Scholar result order. Includes publicly displayed citation counts and full-text links when available.

What you provide

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
SortsortTextOptionalResults order: relevance or newest, such as relevance.Example: Newest
QueryqueryTextRequiredTopic or title words to search, such as remote work productivity.Example: remote work productivity
AuthorauthorTextOptionalAuthor name to filter by, such as Galanti.Example: Galanti
Since Yearsince_yearNumberOptionalEarliest publication year, such as 2022.Example: 2022
Max Resultsmax_resultsNumberOptionalMaximum number of papers to return, such as 10 (up to 50).Example: 12

What you get

FieldTypeDescription
PaperspapersList
Yearpapers[].yearNumberExample: 2023
Titlepapers[].titleTextExample: Rethinking the unthinkable: A Delphi study on remote work during COVID-19…
Authorspapers[].authorsTextExample: T Galanti, B Ferrara, P Benevene, I Buonomo
Snippetpapers[].snippetTextExample: … The association of remote working with better work -life … productivity is…
Paper Linkpapers[].paper_linkTextExample: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/9/497
Citation Countpapers[].citation_countNumberExample: 40
Publication Venuepapers[].publication_venueTextExample: Social Sciences
Free Full Text Linkpapers[].free_full_text_linkTextExample: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/9/497

Example result

For Query: remote work productivity, Author: Galanti, Since Year: 2022, Max Results: 12

JSON
{
  "papers": [
    {
      "year": 2023,
      "title": "Rethinking the unthinkable: A Delphi study on remote work during COVID-19 pandemic",
      "authors": "T Galanti, B Ferrara, P Benevene, I Buonomo",
      "snippet": "… The association of remote working with better work -life … productivity is another positive consequence of remote work . … crucial for ensuring productivity , as remote work can still yield …",
      "paper_link": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/9/497",
      "citation_count": 40,
      "publication_venue": "Social Sciences",
      "free_full_text_link": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/9/497"
    },
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "title": "COVID-19 pandemic and remote working: Toward a new way of working",
      "authors": "F Toscano, T Galanti",
      "snippet": "… limitations of remote working , including increased productivity , … of remote working , including the possibility of a hybrid work model and the potential impact of remote working of this work …",
      "paper_link": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/edited-volume/pii/B9780323956505000276",
      "citation_count": 1,
      "publication_venue": "Linking Neuroscience and Behavior in COVID-19",
      "free_full_text_link": null
    },
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "title": "New strategies for psychological well-being at work",
      "authors": "T Galanti, F Toscano",
      "snippet": "… work -life balance for many employees. With the shift to remote work and the blurring of boundaries between work … healthier, more productive , and more fulfilling work environments for …",
      "paper_link": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780323956505000434",
      "citation_count": 5,
      "publication_venue": "Linking neuroscience and behavior in COVID-19",
      "free_full_text_link": null
    }
  ]
}

For developers

Call it from your code with one request. Change the values in input to run it on new data. To get an API key, open Developers at the bottom of Studio, turn on Developer mode and go to API keys.

cURL
curl 'https://api.fous.com/v1/query' \
  --fail-with-body --silent --show-error --max-time 180 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
  "api": "@google-scholar",
  "visibility": "public",
  "operation": "get_author_profile",
  "version": 1,
  "input": {
    "researcher": "Yoshua Bengio",
    "institution": "University of Montreal"
  },
  "response": {
    "format": "json"
  }
}'

What you can do with it

  • Find papers on a topic for a literature review
  • Track a researcher’s citation metrics over time
  • Prepare formatted citations for a paper
  • Identify papers citing a selected study
  • Distinguish researchers with similar names using their institutions

Questions about Google Scholar

Can I run it with my own inputs?

Yes. Change the inputs in Studio and press Run, or send new inputs from your code, or ask a connected AI assistant.

Can I call this Google Scholar tool as an API?

Yes. Send a POST request to /v1/query with your Fous API key and the inputs, and get JSON back.

How much does it cost?

Each completed run costs 1 credit. Failed runs without a completed receipt are free; completed work can remain charged if delivery is interrupted. With pay as you go, a credit costs 1¢. Monthly plans cost less per credit.

Do I need a Google Scholar account?

No. You only need a Fous account.

How current is the data?

Fous gets the data from scholar.google.com when you run it. Some results are reused for up to 24 hours, and results that use your account or key are never reused. It was last verified on Sep 28, 2026.

Which papers cite a particular study?

List citing papers finds public papers citing a paper matched by title, with an optional author filter.

What are a researcher’s citation metrics?

Get author profile returns citation metrics, yearly citations, and other public profile details for a researcher.

How can I get a formatted citation for a paper?

Get citation returns ready-made citations in several styles for a paper found by title, with an optional author filter.

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