get_journal_metrics: Scrape publication and citation counts of a journal hosted on...

In rscielo: A Scraper for Scientific Journals Hosted on Scielo

Description

get_journal_metrics() scrapes publication and citation counts of a jornal hosted on Scielo.

Usage

get_journal_metrics(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 following variables:

• year: Year.

• n_issues: Number of issues in that year.

• n_articles: Number of articles in that year.

• granted_citations: Granted citations by the journal in that year.

• received_citations: Received citations by the journal in that year.

• avg_art_per_issues: Average number of articles published by the journal in that year.

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

df <- get_journal_metrics(journal_id = "1981-3821")

rscielo documentation built on Aug. 22, 2019, 5:03 p.m.