NEWS.md

In MDPIexploreR: Web Scraping and Bibliometric Analysis of MDPI Journals

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MDPIexploreR 0.2.0

Preparations for CRAN

self_cite() now returns a data frame and displays an error message when references cannot be found.

Verbosity options (hide messages and progress bars) included for article_info(), guest_editor_info() and special_issue_find()

MDPIexploreR 0.1.6

New function plot_articles() replaces functions average_graph(), summary_graph() and type_graph()

New function selfcite_check returns number of articles in referenced published by authors vs total number of references

MDPIexploreR 0.1.5

Updated functions documentation

Fixed clean_names() bug missing single name authors after removing title.

guest_editor_info() now allows to limit the targeted years

guest_editor_info() now outputs number of papers where the guest editor has also a role as academic editor

MDPIexploreR 0.1.4

Added internal function clean_names() to homogenize editors and authors names to the same standard for comparison reason. clean_names() incorporated to guest_editor_info() for name cleaning purposes, replacing previous code with similar purpose on guest_editor_info()

Fixed bug ignoring guest editor without profile link on guest_editor_info()\ \ Fixed code interpreting time of last submission on guest_editor_info()

Fixed and error generating duplicated guest editors in column rt_sum_vector2 generated by guest_editor_info()

guest_editor_info() now outputs a guest editor paper count for each special issue

clean_names() no longer replaces "dr" string inside names\ \ special_issue_info() allows now to target years of interest via year=c(…)

MDPIexploreR 0.1.3

guest_editor() no longer part of MDPIexploreR. Use special_issue_find() and guest_editor_info() instead

Cleared errors and warnings for R CMD check

articles_info() replaced by article_info().

article_info() transform editorial data to lowercase to facilitate the use of gsub()

MDPIexploreR 0.1.2

Adding functions special_issue_find() & guest_editor_info() to deprecate guest_editor() and make the workflow more flexible.

MDPIexploreR 0.1.1

guest_editor() now selects two first words of guest editors and authors names for comparison to account for discrepancies in number of surnames between guest editors and paper authors. (e.g. guest editor name = Dr. Perico Palotes Fernández, but author name is just Perico Palotes. ).

guest_editor() d_over_deadline output column now considers latest article submission date to a special issue instead of latest acceptance time.

guest_editor() Assoc. Prof. guest editors are now picked by the function too

guest_editor() Ignores papers of type "Editorial"

MDPIexploreR 0.0.1

Repurposed R scripts into first version of 'MDPIexploreR' as a package

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