CiteSearcher: A Google Scholar frontend for Mobile Devices

Google Scholar is an invaluable resource in a quickly expanding digital world with an estimated 50,000,000 scholarly articles in existence. It lets one search for scholarly articles by title, author names, publishing venues, and keywords. Their web-based interfaces work great on desktop/laptop screens with 1024x768 resolution or better. However, many mobile devices such as phones and tablets have lower resolutions, with some being as low as 320x480. In order to support such low resolution devices, we have developed CiteSearcher, a front-end application for iOS and Android mobile devices, which communicates with Google Scholar to perform users’ queries. CiteSearcher allow users to easily search Google Scholar for an author's work, and computes the publications impact through the H-index and G-Index. We deployed CiteSearcher on both iOS and Android-based devices.