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    "title": "🔍 Google Scholar Scraper",
    "description": "Google Scholar Scraper research papers from Google Scholar, including titles, authors, publication years, journals, citations, abstracts, PDFs, and profile links. Export structured data to JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML for academic research, literature reviews, citation analysis, and AI workflows.",
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              "preprint"
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