👋 Hey, Let's understand a research field in 5 minutes!

• This notebook automatically fetches citation information of a specific paper from google scholar.
• If a citation is availble on arxiv, its full abstract will be extracted.
• The information will be saved in a text file with a prompt to let an LLM to summarize the citations.
• Please run it on Google Colab to get fast access to Google Scholar.

💡Step 1: Install Dependancies

Just click the "run" button in the notebook.

📚 Step 2: Find a famous paper in this field on Google scholar and get its citedby_id

How to acquire the citedby_id?

1. You can first search a paper on Google Scholar by the title, like:

2. Then please click the "cited by xxxx" page, like:

3. Now you will see the citedby_id in the url of the web page.

💪 Step 3: Set the citedby_id below and generate the prompt file

Note:

• You can only access a limited number of citations in a single search (perhaps under 120), other wise Google will block your IP address.
• No worries! You are using Google colab! If Google blocks you, just restart the kernal of this notebook!

🎉 Step 4: Ask any LLM (ChatGPT, Claude, ChatGLM...) with the generated prompt file

Happy researching! 😊