# scholar

Type: 'scholar'

Academic papers with citation counts and PDF links. Pass `type: 'scholar'` to [search](https://microlink.io/docs/sdk/methods/search):

```js
const{results}=awaitmicrolink.search('attention is all you need',{

type:'scholar'

})

results[0]

// {

//   title: 'Attention is all you need',

//   url: 'https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/hash/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Abstract.html',

//   description: '…to attend to all positions in the decoder…',

//   publisher: 'A Vaswani, N Shazeer, N Parmar… - Advances in neural …, 2017',

//   year: 2017,

//   citations: 249883,

//   pdf: { url: 'https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf' },

//   id: '5Gohgn6QFikJ'

// }
```

| Field         | Type       | Description                                         |
| ------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| `title`       | `string`   | Paper title                                         |
| `url`         | `string`   | Paper or abstract URL                               |
| `description` | `string`   | Paper snippet                                       |
| `publisher`   | `string`   | Authors, journal, and year in publisher line format |
| `year`        | `number`   | Publication year                                    |
| `citations`   | `number`   | Citation count                                      |
| `pdf`         | `{ url }?` | Direct PDF link when available                      |
| `id`          | `string`   | Google Scholar ID                                   |

Sort or filter by `citations` to surface the most impactful papers. Use `pdf.url` when the workflow needs the full document.

See the [scholar guide](https://microlink.io/docs/guides/search/scholar) for research and citation workflows.