Keyword occurance in academic papers (google scholar)

This function gets the amount of hits for a specific keyword per year, using google scholar. Inspired by https://zenodo.org/record/1218409
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Updated 20 May 2022

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List the hits for a specific acedamic keyword by year using google scholar.
Input: Search term as string, start year as number, end year as number, extrapolate 0 or 1: Extrapolates if the year is not finished yet
Example, simple search term: keyword_occurances = academic_keyword_occurance ('PIVlab',2010,2022,0)
Example, advanced search terms: keyword_occurances = academic_keyword_occurance ('("pivlab" | "piv lab") AND ("piv" | "particle image velocimetry") -"@pivlab.net"',2010,2022,0)
The function returns a list with the amount of keyword hits per year.

Cite As

William Thielicke (2026). Keyword occurance in academic papers (google scholar) (https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/111910-keyword-occurance-in-academic-papers-google-scholar), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2022a
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1.0.1

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