A Python library for Rule-Based reference parsing

refparse is an effective tool designed to extract structured data from unformatted reference strings. It is capable of parsing reference strings from Web of Science, Scopus and CSSCI.

Install

Ensure Python 3.9 or higher is installed on your device.

$ pip install refparse

Basic Usage

>>> import refparse
>>> source = "scopus"
>>> ref = "LeCun Y., Bengio Y., Hinton G., Deep learning, Nature, 521, pp. 436-444, (2015)"
>>> print(refparse.parse(ref, source))

{'author': 'LeCun Y., Bengio Y., Hinton G.',
 'title': 'Deep learning',
 'source': 'Nature',
 'volume': '521',
 'issue': None,
 'page': '436-444',
 'year': '2015'}

Return Fields

	Web of Science	Scopus	CSSCI
author	✓	✓	✓
title		✓	✓
source	✓	✓	✓
volume	✓	✓	✓
issue		✓	✓
page	✓	✓	✓
year	✓	✓	✓
doi	✓