jst_get_article: Extract meta information for articles

In jstor: Read Data from JSTOR/DfR

Extract meta information for articles

Description

jst_get_article() extracts meta-data from JSTOR-XML files for journal articles.

Usage

jst_get_article(file_path)

Arguments

file_path

A .xml-file for a journal-article.

Value

A tibble containing the extracted meta-data with the following columns:

• file_name (chr): The file_name of the original .xml-file. Can be used for joining with other parts (authors, references, footnotes, full-texts).

• journal_doi (chr): A registered identifier for the journal.

• journal_jcode (chr): A identifier for the journal like "amerjsoci" for the "American Journal of Sociology".

• journal_pub_id (chr): Similar to journal_jcode. Most of the time either one is present.

• journal_title (chr): The title of the journal.

• article_doi (chr): A registered unique identifier for the article.

• article_jcode (chr): A unique identifier for the article (not a DOI).

• article_pub_id (chr): Infrequent, either part of the DOI or the article_jcode.

• article_type (chr): The type of article (research-article, book-review, etc.).

• article_title (chr): The title of the article.

• volume (chr): The volume the article was published in.

• issue (chr): The issue the article was published in.

• language (chr): The language of the article.

• pub_day (chr): Publication day, if specified.

• pub_month (chr): Publication month, if specified.

• pub_year (int): Year of publication.

• first_page (int): Page number for the first page of the article.

• last_page (int): Page number for the last page of the article.

• page_range (chr): The range of pages for the article.

A note about publication dates: always the first entry is being extracted, which should correspond to the oldest date, in case there is more than one date.

Examples

jst_get_article(jst_example("article_with_references.xml"))

jstor documentation built on Aug. 16, 2023, 5:09 p.m.