findAuthorWorks: Find Author's Co-authored Works

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Find Author's Co-authored Works

Description

Searches for an author's name in a bibliometric dataframe and returns the DOIs and author positions of their co-authored works.

Usage

findAuthorWorks(author_name, data, partial_match = TRUE, exact_match = FALSE)

Arguments

author_name	Character. The author's name to search for (case-insensitive)
data	Data.frame. The bibliometric dataframe with AU and DI columns
partial_match	Logical. If TRUE, allows partial name matching (default: TRUE)
exact_match	Logical. If TRUE, requires exact name matching (default: FALSE)

Details

The function searches through the AU column which contains author names separated by semicolons. It identifies the position of the target author and returns comprehensive information about each matching work.

Value

A data.frame with columns:

• doi: DOI of the work

• author_position: Numerical position of the author in the author list

• total_authors: Total number of authors in the work

• all_authors: Complete list of authors for reference

• matched_name: The exact name variant that was matched

Author(s)

Your Name

Examples

## Not run: 
# Find works by "ARIA M"
works <- findAuthorWorks("ARIA M", M)

# Find works with exact matching
works_exact <- findAuthorWorks("PESTANA MH", M, exact_match = TRUE)

# Find works with partial matching disabled
works_full <- findAuthorWorks("MASSIMO ARIA", M, partial_match = FALSE)

## End(Not run)

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