Is scholar safe to use?

scholar has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.2.6). DepScope rates its health at 53/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of scholar?

The latest version of scholar is 0.2.6, released 2026-02-26.

Does scholar have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of scholar.

Is scholar deprecated?

No, scholar is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.2.6 (2026-02-26).

What are alternatives to scholar?

DepScope has no curated alternatives for scholar at this time.

What license does scholar use?

scholar is licensed under MIT + file LICENSE.

scholar

cranv0.2.6

Analyse Citation Data from Google Scholar. Provides functions to extract citation data from Google Scholar. Convenience functions are also provided for comparing multiple scholars and predicting future h-index values.

License MIT + file LICENSE0 versions1 maintainers10 deps1,120 weekly dl

YuLab-SMU/scholar

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 53/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

6/20

popularity

25/25

security

0/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (10)

R.cache dplyr httr rlang rvest stringr xml2 tidygraph ggraph ggplot2

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/cran/scholar

First published · 2026-02-26 08:27:16

Last updated · 2026-02-26T07:00:02+00:00