jst_get_authors: Extract author information
In jstor: Read Data from JSTOR/DfR

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

jst_get_authors() extracts information about authors from JSTOR-XML files.

1	jst_get_authors(file_path)

file_path

A .xml-file from JSTOR containing meta-data.

The function returns a tibble with the following six columns:

prefix: in case there was a prefix to the name, like "Dr.".
given_name: The author's given name, like "Albert".
surname: The author's surname like "Einstein".
string_name: In some cases data the name is not available in separate fields, but just as a complete string: "Albert Einstein".
suffix: a suffix to the name, like "Jr.".
author_number: The authors are enumerated in the order they appear in the data.

A tibble containing the extracted authors. All empty fields are NA_character.

1	jst_get_authors(jst_example("article_with_references.xml"))

# A tibble: 1 x 7
  file_name           prefix given_name surname string_name suffix author_number
  <chr>               <chr>  <chr>      <chr>   <chr>       <chr>          <int>
1 article_with_refer… <NA>   R.         Kudo    <NA>        <NA>               1