read_openalex: Convert OpenAlex data to bibnets format

In bibnets: Importing, Constructing, and Exporting Bibliometric Networks

Convert OpenAlex data to bibnets format

Description

Takes the output of openalexR::oa_fetch() (a tibble/data frame of works) and converts it to the standardized bibnets format with list-columns.

Usage

read_openalex(data)

Arguments

data	A data frame from oa_fetch(entity = "works", ...). Must contain at least an id column. Common columns include display_name, publication_year, so, doi, cited_by_count, referenced_works, ab, and author (nested).

Value

A data frame in the standard bibnets format: id, title, year, journal, doi, cited_by_count, abstract, type, plus list-columns authors, references, and keywords.

Examples

# Construct a minimal data frame matching the structure returned by
# openalexR::oa_fetch(entity = "works", ...). In practice, pass the
# result of oa_fetch() directly.
raw <- data.frame(
  id = c("W123", "W456"),
  display_name = c("First paper", "Second paper"),
  publication_year = c(2022L, 2021L),
  so = c("Journal A", "Journal B"),
  doi = c("https://doi.org/10.1/a", "https://doi.org/10.2/b"),
  cited_by_count = c(5L, 12L),
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE
)
raw$author <- list(
  data.frame(au_display_name = c("Smith J", "Jones A"),
             stringsAsFactors = FALSE),
  data.frame(au_display_name = "Davis M", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
)
raw$referenced_works <- list(c("W100", "W200"), "W123")
data <- read_openalex(raw)
head(data[, c("id", "title", "year", "journal", "doi")])

bibnets documentation built on June 19, 2026, 1:06 a.m.