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Lattes is an unique and largest platform for academic curriculumns. There you can find information about the academic work of all Brazilian scholars. It includes institution of PhD, current employer, field of work, all publications metadata and more. It is an unique and reliable source of information for bibliometric studies.
Package GetLattesData
is a wrap up of functions I've been using for accessing the data. In the past, one could download the data directly, without any manual work. Currently, r Sys.Date()
, a manual captcha break is necessary. Therefore, using this package requires the manual download of the zip files with the xml data.
Let's consider a simple example of accessing information about my academic CV and a coleague. Both zip files are available locally within the package as an example. If you want to run this example for other scholars, you will have to download their xml zip files from Lattes. After opening the Lattes website (see an example here), click in the XML buttom in the top righ corner. Once the captcha is once again solved, you will download a zip file with the xml content.
Since I work in the business department of UFRGS, the impact of my publications is localy set by the Qualis ranking of Management, Accounting and Tourism ('ADMINISTRAÇÃO PÚBLICA E DE EMPRESAS, CIÊNCIAS CONTÁBEIS E TURISMO'
). Qualis is the local journal ranking in Brazil. You can read more about Qualis in Wikipedia and here.
Now, based on the zip file and field of Qualis, we use GetLattesData
to access information available in Lattes:
library(GetLattesData) # get files from pkg (you can download from other researchers in lattes website) f.in <- c(system.file('extdata/3262699324398819.zip', package = 'GetLattesData'), system.file('extdata/8373564643000623.zip', package = 'GetLattesData')) # set qualis field.qualis = 'ADMINISTRAÇÃO PÚBLICA E DE EMPRESAS, CIÊNCIAS CONTÁBEIS E TURISMO' # get data l.out <- gld_get_lattes_data_from_zip(f.in, field.qualis = field.qualis )
The output my.l
is a list with the following dataframes:
names(l.out)
The first is a dataframe with information about researchers:
tpesq <- l.out$tpesq str(tpesq)
The second dataframe contains information about all published publications, including Qualis and SJR:
dplyr::glimpse(l.out$tpublic.published)
Other dataframes in l.out
included information about accepted papers, supervisions, books and conferences.
GetLattesData
GetLattesData
makes it easy to create academic reports for a large number of researchers. See next, where we plot the number of publications for each researcher, conditioning on Qualis ranking.
tpublic.published <- l.out$tpublic.published library(ggplot2) p <- ggplot(tpublic.published, aes(x = qualis)) + geom_bar(position = 'identity') + facet_wrap(~name) + labs(x = paste0('Qualis: ', field.qualis)) print(p)
We can also use dplyr
to do some simple assessment of academic productivity:
library(dplyr) my.tab <- tpublic.published %>% group_by(name) %>% summarise(n.papers = n(), max.SJR = max(SJR, na.rm = T), mean.SJR = mean(SJR, na.rm = T), n.A1.qualis = sum(qualis == 'A1', na.rm = T), n.A2.qualis = sum(qualis == 'A2', na.rm = T), median.authorship = median(as.numeric(order.aut), na.rm = T )) knitr::kable(my.tab)
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