read_wos: Read Web of Science plaintext or tab-delimited export

In bibnets: Importing, Constructing, and Exporting Bibliometric Networks

Read Web of Science plaintext or tab-delimited export

Description

Parses a Web of Science export file (plaintext or tab-delimited) into a standardized bibliometric data frame.

Usage

read_wos(file, format = "plaintext")

Arguments

file	Path to a WoS export file (.txt).
format	Character. "plaintext" (default) for WoS tagged format, or "tab" for tab-delimited export.

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. WoS-specific extra: keywords_plus (list-column).

Examples

f <- system.file("extdata", "wos_sample.txt", package = "bibnets")
data <- read_wos(f)
head(data[, c("id", "title", "year", "journal")])

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