applyCitationMatching: applyCitationMatching (Deprecated)

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applyCitationMatching (Deprecated)

Description

Deprecated in bibliometrix 6.0. This function has been renamed to applyReferenceMatching. Please use applyReferenceMatching() instead.

Usage

applyCitationMatching(M, threshold = 0.9, method = "jw", min_chars = 20)

Arguments

M	A bibliometrix data frame, typically created by convert2df. Must contain the columns: SR: Short reference identifier for each document CR: Cited references field (citations separated by semicolons) DB: (Optional) Database source identifier for format detection
threshold	Numeric value between 0 and 1 indicating the similarity threshold for matching citations. Default is 0.85. See normalize_citations for details on selecting appropriate thresholds.
method	String distance method to use for fuzzy matching. Options include: "jw" (default): Jaro-Winkler distance, optimized for bibliographic strings "lv": Levenshtein distance Other methods supported by stringdistmatrix
min_chars	Minimum characters for valid citations (default: 20)

Value

Same as applyReferenceMatching.

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