🔎 rscopus_plus

An extension of the rscopus package

The rscopus_plus functions (Bernabeu, 2024) extend the R package rscopus (Muschelli, 2022) to administer the search quota and to enable specific searches and comparisons. An example of use is available here.

• scopus_search_plus runs rscopus::scopus_search as many times as necessary based on the number of results and the search quota.

• scopus_search_DOIs gets DOIs from scopus_search_plus, which can then be imported into a reference manager, such as Zotero, to create a list of references.

• scopus_search_additional_DOIs searches for additional DOIs.

• scopus_comparison compares counts of publications on various topics throughout a certain period. The comparison terms are shown in the legend and in the lines, and they all include the reference query.

• plot_scopus_comparison draws a line plot with the output from scopus_comparison.

  

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Note. Before using any of the first four functions, the user must set their Scopus API key confidentially (see rscopus guidelines).

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References

Bernabeu, P. (2024). rscopus_plus. OSF. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/BUZQ6

Muschelli, J. (2022). Package ’rscopus’. CRAN. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rscopus/rscopus.pdf