Privacy & Data Use

This site does not collect personal accounts or store identifying user data. It generates temporary citation analysis artifacts based solely on public OpenAlex author information you request.

What we receive from you

  • An author name OR an OpenAlex author ID/URL
  • An optional start year filter

What we create temporarily

Each analysis run creates a short-lived directory identified by a random 8‑character run ID. It contains:

  • CSV / Excel citation time series
  • PNG plots of monthly / yearly citations
  • PDF reports (citation report & publications list)
  • meta.json summarizing author metrics
  • Optional small debug JSON snippets (sample rows, counts)

No persistent author cache

The app performs a fresh fetch for each analysis and only ephemeral run artifacts are stored.

How long outputs persist

  • Outputs live in the system temp directory (ephemeral)
  • The previous run for the same browser session is deleted automatically when you start a new one
  • A background TTL janitor removes runs older than 2 hours
  • All data disappears on server restart or OS temp cleanup

No tracking or profiling

  • No user accounts, passwords, or emails
  • No IP storage inside the app (web server access logs may still exist)
  • No third‑party ad pixels

Third-party API

All bibliographic data comes from OpenAlex.