aggregate_by_entity: Aggregate multi-valued fields by an entity

In bibnets: Importing, Constructing, and Exporting Bibliometric Networks

Aggregate multi-valued fields by an entity

Description

Groups documents by a single-valued or list-column entity (e.g., author, journal) and pools all values from another list-column (e.g., references, keywords) across documents belonging to that entity.

Usage

aggregate_by_entity(data, entity_field, value_field, min_freq = 1L)

Arguments

data	A data frame with id and the specified columns.
entity_field	Character. Name of the entity column. If it is a scalar column (e.g., "journal"), each document belongs to one entity. If it is a list-column (e.g., "authors"), each document may belong to multiple entities.
value_field	Character. Name of the list-column to aggregate (e.g., "references").
min_freq	Integer. Minimum number of papers per entity. Default 1.

Value

A data frame with columns id (entity name) and value_field (list-column of pooled values, with duplicates preserved).

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