ScienceTracker
Free citation and h-index tracker for researchers
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Details
- External ID
- 1265947
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ScienceTracker
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7868852459016393
- Tags
- Productivity, Analytics, Education, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 1 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 1 a.m.
Description
ScienceTracker is a free Windows app for researchers that monitors publications, citations, h-index and profile changes across Google Scholar, Scopus, OpenAlex and ORCID. It runs in the system tray, notifies users when metrics change, and includes citation trends, publication-level analytics, journal quartiles, h-index progress analysis, Word reports and optional Telegram notifications.
Enrichment
- Theme
- task scheduling and workflow management
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- citation and h-index tracker for researchers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A system tray dashboard integrating open APIs like OpenAlex and ORCID is straightforward, but tracking Google Scholar metrics reliably requires constant scraping and anti-bot evasion that breaks easily.
What it would actually take: A desktop wrapper using Tauri or C#/.NET for Windows system tray management paired with a resilient background worker. The hard part is building an extraction engine for Google Scholar that handles IP rotation, CAPTCHA bypasses, and HTML structure shifts, or integrating costly third-party SERP APIs to obtain accurate citation metrics.
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Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.
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