Google Scholar Citation Relations
A Google Scholar dataset of 82,937 papers, 148,116 citations, collected by Google Scholar via academic citation data. Each record contains citation edges between papers, node IDs, node names (titles), node types (paper, author, etc.), edge types (cites, etc.). Academic citation network from Google Scholar, capturing the flow of scientific knowledge through citation relationships. Suitable for citation analysis, academic network analysis, research impact, knowledge flow studies, scholarly communication.
Cite this dataset at
gscholar-citations.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 82,937 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
gscholar-citations- Authors
- Google Scholar
- Year
- 2025
- Source paper
- Google Scholar Citation Relations Dataset
- License
- See source for licensing terms (academic research use) (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 82,937
- Nodes
- 82,937
- Edges
- 148,116 (directed)
- Nodes are
- paper
- Edges are
- citation
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Text corpus
- paper title
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2010-2015 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- http://web.archive.org/web/20160610061723/http://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~leman/data/gscholar.db unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 42.0 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{gscholar_citations,
title = {Google Scholar Citation Relations Dataset},
author = {{Google Scholar}},
year = {2025}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Google Scholar (2025). Google Scholar Citation Relations [Data set]. https://gscholar-citations.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Google Scholar. Google Scholar Citation Relations. 2025, gscholar-citations.echo.directory/.
