scopus_search: SCOPUS Search

In rscopus: Scopus Database 'API' Interface

SCOPUS Search

Description

This function wraps generic_elsevier_api to give a scopus search from the Elsevier Scopus Search API

Searches SCOPUS to get information about documents on an author.

Usage

scopus_search(
  query,
  api_key = NULL,
  count = 200,
  view = c("STANDARD", "COMPLETE"),
  start = 0,
  verbose = TRUE,
  max_count = 20000,
  http = "https://api.elsevier.com/content/search/scopus",
  headers = NULL,
  wait_time = 0,
  ...
)

sciencedirect_search(count = 100, ...)

scidir_search(count = 100, ...)

Arguments

query	Query string to search on SCOPUS
api_key	API Key for Elsevier
count	number of records to retrieve (below 200 for STANDARD, below 25 for COMPLETE views, see https://dev.elsevier.com/api_key_settings.html).
view	type of view to give, see https://dev.elsevier.com/documentation/ScopusSearchAPI.wadl
start	where should the records start gathering
verbose	Print diagnostic messages
max_count	Maximum count of records to be returned.
http	Address for scopus API
headers	additional headers to be added to add_headers
wait_time	The time in seconds to wait across consecutive requests of a single search (when records > 25)
...	Arguments to be passed to the query list for GET

Value

List of entries from SCOPUS

Examples

if (have_api_key()) {
  authorized = is_elsevier_authorized()
  if (authorized) {
    res = scopus_search(query = "all(gene)", max_count = 20,
                        count = 10)
    df = gen_entries_to_df(res$entries)
    head(df$df)
    sci_res = sciencedirect_search(query = "heart+attack AND text(liver)",
                                   max_count = 30, count = 25)
    sci_df = gen_entries_to_df(sci_res$entries)
    Sys.sleep(2)
    nt = sciencedirect_search(query = "title(neurotoxin)", max_count = 20,
                              count = 10, wait_time = 1)
    nt_df = gen_entries_to_df(nt$entries)
    nt_df = nt_df$df
  }
}

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