INSPIRE Bibliographic Tools

INSPIRE supported tools

• Extract references
• Generate a bibliography

INSPIRE supported API examples

See INSPIRE API for more info on using our API.

• inspire_api_author_citations.py shows the total number of citations an author gets each year for a given range of years. Calculates the aggregated number of citations to all publications attributed to a certain author per year.

User developed tools

This list is offered as a convenience to our community. INSPIRE makes no representations about the accuracy or safety of these tools. Please direct all questions to the listed author.

• spires.py by Tom Brown at the String Theory Wiki.

  This is a python program that accesses information on papers in INSPIRE. It can access title, author, bibitem and BiBTeX records, update your local BiBTeX library and download papers from the arXiv. A separate program listcitations.py reads through a TeX file and then looks up all the \cite{...} references and outputs the bibitems.

• pyinspire.py by Ian Huston.

  Retrieve results from the INSPIRE HEP database (https://inspirehep.net) from the command line.

• inspiretools by David M. Straub.

  This Python 3 package provides two scripts, auxtobib and auxtoxml, which take a LaTeX .aux file as input. auxtobib fetches the bibtex entries for all the articles cited in the document from INSPIRE. auxtoxml return an XML file containing the titles of the articles.

• filltex by Davide Gerosa

  filltex is a simple tool to fill LaTex reference lists with records from the ADS and INSPIRE databases.
  Find it on GitHub.

• Inspire app (iOS) by Yuji Tachikawa (立川 裕二)

  OS X front end for inspire-hep and arxiv

  • It caches Inspire queries for faster lookups.
  • It grabs abstracts from arXiv.org or journal websites.
  • Download & read PDFs by one click.
  • You can even read your favorite arXiv/new.

  Find it on GitHub.

• Android-INSPIRE-HEP-arXiv by Fernando Rejón-Barrera.

  Android-INSPIRE-HEP-arXiv is an Android feed app for new INSPIRE-HEP citations and new arXiv submissions for specific tag, written in kotlin.
  Find it on GitHub.

Updated 2018-08-17