Terms

What the service is

SciCount gathers publications and the papers citing them from public sources, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, OpenCitations and Europe PMC, and puts them on a page about a researcher. Anyone can make such a page, and the researcher can claim it. We show where each item came from and whether a reference list confirms it. We do not promise that any source is complete or correct, and figures here may differ from figures elsewhere.

Your account

You sign in through Google or GitHub, and you are responsible for keeping that account secure. One person, one account, and one claimed page per account. Tell us at [email protected] if you think someone else has reached your page.

Making a page about someone

You may make a page about any researcher from their public records. Pick only the records and papers that really are theirs, and do not use a page to impersonate anyone, to mislead, or to harass. Until the researcher claims it, you can remove and restore papers, add papers found through the search, and change which records it links, and nothing else: no text of your own, no uploads, and the address stays as published. Once the researcher claims it, it is theirs and you can no longer change it.

If you delete your account, the pages you made and nobody claimed stay up, with nothing linking them to you any more.

Your own page

A page about you becomes yours when you claim it and we approve the claim. You then decide what it says. Add only publications you wrote and citations that genuinely cite you. You keep the rights to anything you write or upload, and you give us permission to show it on your page and in the files you export. You may remove any of it at any time.

Do not use the service to publish anything unlawful or to claim work that is not yours.

Free and paid

The service is free to use. Some features are paid, and their price is shown before you buy. Payment is handled by Stripe. You can cancel from your settings at any time, and access continues to the end of the period you paid for. We do not refund part of a period unless the law requires it.

Availability

We try to keep the service running and the data fresh, but we provide it as it is, without a guarantee that it will be available or error free. Imports depend on other people’s services, which sometimes slow down or go away. Nothing here is advice you should rely on for a decision that matters.

Ending it

You can delete your account from your settings whenever you like, and the page you own and everything of yours goes with it. We may suspend or remove any page that breaks these terms, or that the researcher it is about asks us to remove, and we will tell its owner why unless the law prevents us.

Reports and complaints

Every page carries a report link. Use it if something on the site is wrong, is not theirs, or should not be there, and we will look at it. If a page is about you and you want it gone, choose “This is me and I want this page removed”. For anything else, write to [email protected].

Changes

We will say on this page when these terms change, and the date above will move. If a change matters to you, we will tell you by email before it takes effect.