get_journal_info: Scrape the description of a journal hosted on Scielo

Description Usage Arguments Value Note Examples

View source: R/get_journal_info.R

Description

get_journal_info() scrapes the description (publisher, issn, and mission) information of a journal hosted on Scielo.

Usage

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get_journal_info(journal_id)

Arguments

journal_id

a character vector with the ID of the journal hosted on Scielo (the get_journal_id function can be used to find a journal's ID from its URL).

Value

The function returns a tibble with the journal's description.

Note

Sometimes, the Scielo website is offline for maintaince, in which cases this function will not work (i.e., users will get HTML status different from the usual 200 OK).

Examples

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journal_info <- get_journal_info(journal_id = "1981-3821")

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