Google Scholar

Academic papers, researcher profiles and paper citations

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.

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Researcher

Researcher’s name, for example Geoffrey Hinton.

InstitutionOptional

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

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Example results

Name: Yoshua Bengio
Photo Link: Open image
Affiliation: Professor of computer science, University of Montreal , Mila, IVADO, CIFAR
Profile Link: scholar.google.com
H Index All Time: 259
Citations All Time: 1,163,331
I10 Index All Time: 1,111
H Index Last 5 Years: 211
Verified Email Domain: umontreal.ca
Citations Last 5 Years: 777420
I10 Index Last 5 Years: 953
Top Papers: Top Papers
Title Year Venue Authors Citations Page Link
Generative adversarial nets
2014
Advances in neural information processing systems 27
IJ Goodfellow, J Pouget-Abadie, M Mirza, B Xu, D Warde-Farley, S Ozair, ...
121,371
scholar.google.com
Deep learning
2015
nature 521 (7553), 436-444
Y LeCun, Y Bengio, G Hinton
120,679
scholar.google.com
Deep learning
2016
MIT press 1 (2)
I Goodfellow, Y Bengio, A Courville
106,671
scholar.google.com
Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition
1998
Proceedings of the IEEE 86 (11), 2278-2324
Y LeCun, L Bottou, Y Bengio, P Haffner
90,442
scholar.google.com
Neural machine translation by jointly learning to align and translate
2014
arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0473
D Bahdanau, K Cho, Y Bengio
44,962
scholar.google.com
Learning phrase representations using RNN encoder–decoder for statistical machine translation
2014
Proceedings of the 2014 conference on empirical methods in natural language …
K Cho, B Van Merriënboer, Ç Gulçehre, D Bahdanau, F Bougares, ...
43,540
scholar.google.com
Graph attention networks
2017
arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.10903
P Veličković, G Cucurull, A Casanova, A Romero, P Lio, Y Bengio
41,947
scholar.google.com
Understanding the difficulty of training deep feedforward neural networks
2010
Proceedings of the thirteenth international conference on artificial …
X Glorot, Y Bengio
31,208
scholar.google.com
Empirical evaluation of gated recurrent neural networks on sequence modeling
2014
arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.3555
J Chung, C Gulcehre, KH Cho, Y Bengio
23,933
scholar.google.com
Representation learning: A review and new perspectives
2013
IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 35 (8), 1798-1828
Y Bengio, A Courville, P Vincent
21,523
scholar.google.com
Random search for hyper-parameter optimization.
2012
Journal of machine learning research 13 (2)
J Bergstra, Y Bengio
18,995
scholar.google.com
Learning long-term dependencies with gradient descent is difficult
1994
IEEE transactions on neural networks 5 (2), 157-166
Y Bengio, P Simard, P Frasconi
15,427
scholar.google.com
Deep sparse rectifier neural networks
2011
Proceedings of the fourteenth international conference on artificial …
X Glorot, A Bordes, Y Bengio
15,125
scholar.google.com
Show, attend and tell: Neural image caption generation with visual attention
2015
International conference on machine learning, 2048-2057
K Xu, J Ba, R Kiros, K Cho, A Courville, R Salakhudinov, R Zemel, ...
15,014
scholar.google.com
How transferable are features in deep neural networks?
2014
Advances in neural information processing systems 27
J Yosinski, J Clune, Y Bengio, H Lipson
13,941
scholar.google.com
Learning deep architectures for AI
2009
Foundations and Trends® in Finance 2 (1), 1-127
Y Bengio
13,713
scholar.google.com
A Neural probabilistic language model
2003
Journal of Machine Learning Research 3, 1137-1155
Y Bengio, R Ducharme, P Vincent
13,094
scholar.google.com
On the properties of neural machine translation: Encoder–decoder approaches
2014
Proceedings of SSST-8, eighth workshop on syntax, semantics and structure in …
K Cho, B Van Merriënboer, D Bahdanau, Y Bengio
11,733
scholar.google.com
Extracting and composing robust features with denoising autoencoders
2008
Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Machine learning, 1096-1103
P Vincent, H Larochelle, Y Bengio, PA Manzagol
11,357
scholar.google.com
Stacked denoising autoencoders: Learning useful representations in a deep network with a local denoising criterion.
2010
Journal of machine learning research 11 (12)
P Vincent, H Larochelle, I Lajoie, Y Bengio, PA Manzagol, L Bottou
10,467
scholar.google.com
Citations Per Year: Citations Per Year
Year Count
2013
4,315
2014
7,262
2015
13,504
2016
25,217
2017
41,761
2018
67,913
2019
90,505
2020
108,234
2021
121,334
2022
123,651
2023
128,649
2024
136,775
2025
152,900
2026
113,745
Research Interests: Machine learning
deep learning
artificial intelligence

Top Papers
Title	Year	Venue	Authors	Citations	Page Link
Generative adversarial nets	2014	Advances in neural information processing systems 27	IJ Goodfellow, J Pouget-Abadie, M Mirza, B Xu, D Warde-Farley, S Ozair, ...	121,371	scholar.google.com
Deep learning	2015	nature 521 (7553), 436-444	Y LeCun, Y Bengio, G Hinton	120,679	scholar.google.com
Deep learning	2016	MIT press 1 (2)	I Goodfellow, Y Bengio, A Courville	106,671	scholar.google.com
Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition	1998	Proceedings of the IEEE 86 (11), 2278-2324	Y LeCun, L Bottou, Y Bengio, P Haffner	90,442	scholar.google.com
Neural machine translation by jointly learning to align and translate	2014	arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0473	D Bahdanau, K Cho, Y Bengio	44,962	scholar.google.com
Learning phrase representations using RNN encoder–decoder for statistical machine translation	2014	Proceedings of the 2014 conference on empirical methods in natural language …	K Cho, B Van Merriënboer, Ç Gulçehre, D Bahdanau, F Bougares, ...	43,540	scholar.google.com
Graph attention networks	2017	arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.10903	P Veličković, G Cucurull, A Casanova, A Romero, P Lio, Y Bengio	41,947	scholar.google.com
Understanding the difficulty of training deep feedforward neural networks	2010	Proceedings of the thirteenth international conference on artificial …	X Glorot, Y Bengio	31,208	scholar.google.com
Empirical evaluation of gated recurrent neural networks on sequence modeling	2014	arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.3555	J Chung, C Gulcehre, KH Cho, Y Bengio	23,933	scholar.google.com
Representation learning: A review and new perspectives	2013	IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 35 (8), 1798-1828	Y Bengio, A Courville, P Vincent	21,523	scholar.google.com
Random search for hyper-parameter optimization.	2012	Journal of machine learning research 13 (2)	J Bergstra, Y Bengio	18,995	scholar.google.com
Learning long-term dependencies with gradient descent is difficult	1994	IEEE transactions on neural networks 5 (2), 157-166	Y Bengio, P Simard, P Frasconi	15,427	scholar.google.com
Deep sparse rectifier neural networks	2011	Proceedings of the fourteenth international conference on artificial …	X Glorot, A Bordes, Y Bengio	15,125	scholar.google.com
Show, attend and tell: Neural image caption generation with visual attention	2015	International conference on machine learning, 2048-2057	K Xu, J Ba, R Kiros, K Cho, A Courville, R Salakhudinov, R Zemel, ...	15,014	scholar.google.com
How transferable are features in deep neural networks?	2014	Advances in neural information processing systems 27	J Yosinski, J Clune, Y Bengio, H Lipson	13,941	scholar.google.com
Learning deep architectures for AI	2009	Foundations and Trends® in Finance 2 (1), 1-127	Y Bengio	13,713	scholar.google.com
A Neural probabilistic language model	2003	Journal of Machine Learning Research 3, 1137-1155	Y Bengio, R Ducharme, P Vincent	13,094	scholar.google.com
On the properties of neural machine translation: Encoder–decoder approaches	2014	Proceedings of SSST-8, eighth workshop on syntax, semantics and structure in …	K Cho, B Van Merriënboer, D Bahdanau, Y Bengio	11,733	scholar.google.com
Extracting and composing robust features with denoising autoencoders	2008	Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Machine learning, 1096-1103	P Vincent, H Larochelle, Y Bengio, PA Manzagol	11,357	scholar.google.com
Stacked denoising autoencoders: Learning useful representations in a deep network with a local denoising criterion.	2010	Journal of machine learning research 11 (12)	P Vincent, H Larochelle, I Lajoie, Y Bengio, PA Manzagol, L Bottou	10,467	scholar.google.com

Citations Per Year
Year	Count
2013	4,315
2014	7,262
2015	13,504
2016	25,217
2017	41,761
2018	67,913
2019	90,505
2020	108,234
2021	121,334
2022	123,651
2023	128,649
2024	136,775
2025	152,900
2026	113,745

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About Google Scholar

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 by Fous from scholar.google.com and lite.duckduckgo.com and checked automatically; it last passed a check on Sep 28, 2026. Fous is not affiliated with Google Scholar.

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Get author profile

1 credit per run

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

Field	Type	Required	Description
Researcher`researcher`	Text	Required	Researcher’s name, for example Geoffrey Hinton.Example: Yoshua Bengio
Institution`institution`	Text	Optional	Optional institution to select the right person, for example University of Toronto.Example: University of Montreal

What you get

Field	Type	Description
Name`name`	Text	Example: Yoshua Bengio
Photo Link`photo_link`	Text	Example: https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=view_photo&user=kukA0Lc…
Top Papers`top_papers`	List
Year`top_papers[].year`	Number	Example: 2014
Title`top_papers[].title`	Text	Example: Generative adversarial nets
Venue`top_papers[].venue`	Text	Example: Advances in neural information processing systems 27
Authors`top_papers[].authors`	Text	Example: IJ Goodfellow, J Pouget-Abadie, M Mirza, B Xu, D Warde-Farley, S Ozair, ...
Citations`top_papers[].citations`	Number	Example: 121371
Page Link`top_papers[].page_link`	Text	Example: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=kukA0LcAA…
Affiliation`affiliation`	Text	Example: Professor of computer science, University of Montreal , Mila, IVADO, CIFAR
Profile Link`profile_link`	Text	Example: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kukA0LcAAAAJ&hl=en
H Index All Time`h_index_all_time`	Number	Example: 259
Citations All Time`citations_all_time`	Number	Example: 1163331
Citations Per Year`citations_per_year`	List
Year`citations_per_year[].year`	Number	Example: 2013
Count`citations_per_year[].count`	Number	Example: 4315
I10 Index All Time`i10_index_all_time`	Number	Example: 1111
Research Interests`research_interests`	List
H Index Last 5 Years`h_index_last_5_years`	Number	Example: 211
Verified Email Domain`verified_email_domain`	Text	Example: umontreal.ca
Citations Last 5 Years`citations_last_5_years`	Number	Example: 777420
I10 Index Last 5 Years`i10_index_last_5_years`	Number	Example: 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 per run

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

Field	Type	Required	Description
Title`title`	Text	Required	Paper title to find, for example Attention is all you need.Example: Attention is all you need
Author`author`	Text	Optional	Author name to narrow the paper search, for example Ashish Vaswani.Example: Ashish Vaswani

What you get

Field	Type	Description
Apa`apa`	Text	APA citation in plain text.Example: Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N…
Mla`mla`	Text	MLA citation in plain text.Example: Vaswani, Ashish, et al. "Attention is all you need." Advances in neural…
Title`title`	Text	Matched paper title.Example: Attention is all you need
Bibtex`bibtex`	Text	BibTeX entry for the paper.Example: @article{vaswani2017attention, title={Attention is all you need}…
Chicago`chicago`	Text	Chicago citation in plain text.Example: Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones…
Harvard`harvard`	Text	Harvard citation in plain text.Example: Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A.N…
Paper URL`paper_url`	Text	Link to the matched paper.Example: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/7181-attention-is
Vancouver`vancouver`	Text	Vancouver 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 per run

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

Field	Type	Required	Description
Sort`sort`	Text	Optional	Order of citing papers, for example newest.Example: Newest
Title`title`	Text	Required	Title of the paper whose citing papers you want, for example Deep residual learning for image recognition.Example: Attention is all you need
Author`author`	Text	Optional	Author name to distinguish papers with similar titles, for example Kaiming He.Example: Vaswani
Max Results`max_results`	Number	Optional	Maximum citing papers to return, for example 20.Example: 4

What you get

Field	Type	Description
Citing Papers`citing_papers`	List	Papers citing the matched paper.
Year`citing_papers[].year`	Number	Example: 2026
Title`citing_papers[].title`	Text	Example: Coarse-to-Fine Long-term Interest Modeling for Generative Recommendation
Venue`citing_papers[].venue`	Text	Example: Proceedings of the 20th …
Authors`citing_papers[].authors`	Text	Example: S Cao , J She, B Zeng, J Liu, C Guo, K Cai …
Paper Link`citing_papers[].paper_link`	Text	Example: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3773078.3831769
Free PDF Link`citing_papers[].free_pdf_link`	Text	Example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.17419
Citation Count`citing_papers[].citation_count`	Number	Example: 0
Matched Paper Title`matched_paper_title`	Text	Title of the paper that was matched.Example: Attention is all you need
Total Citation Count`total_citation_count`	Number	Number 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 per run

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

Field	Type	Required	Description
Sort`sort`	Text	Optional	Results order: relevance or newest, such as relevance.Example: Newest
Query`query`	Text	Required	Topic or title words to search, such as remote work productivity.Example: remote work productivity
Author`author`	Text	Optional	Author name to filter by, such as Galanti.Example: Galanti
Since Year`since_year`	Number	Optional	Earliest publication year, such as 2022.Example: 2022
Max Results`max_results`	Number	Optional	Maximum number of papers to return, such as 10 (up to 50).Example: 12

What you get

Field	Type	Description
Papers`papers`	List
Year`papers[].year`	Number	Example: 2023
Title`papers[].title`	Text	Example: Rethinking the unthinkable: A Delphi study on remote work during COVID-19…
Authors`papers[].authors`	Text	Example: T Galanti, B Ferrara, P Benevene, I Buonomo
Snippet`papers[].snippet`	Text	Example: … The association of remote working with better work -life … productivity is…
Paper Link`papers[].paper_link`	Text	Example: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/9/497
Citation Count`papers[].citation_count`	Number	Example: 40
Publication Venue`papers[].publication_venue`	Text	Example: Social Sciences
Free Full Text Link`papers[].free_full_text_link`	Text	Example: 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

Run this workflow from your own code. In Studio, turn on Developer mode and create an API key.

cURL

# First set your key: export FOUS_API_KEY='YOUR_FOUS_API_KEY'
: "${FOUS_API_KEY:?Set FOUS_API_KEY before running this example}"

curl 'https://api.fous.com/v1/query' \
  --fail-with-body --silent --show-error --max-time 120 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_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

Is Fous affiliated with Google Scholar?

No. Fous is not affiliated with Google Scholar. This workflow reads the public scholar.google.com website and returns its data.

How much does it cost?

Each run costs 1 credit. 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; repeating the same request within a day may return the saved result. Fous checks this workflow automatically; it last passed a check on Sep 28, 2026.