NEWS.md

In wosr: Clients to the 'Web of Science' and 'InCites' APIs

wosr 0.3.0

New functions

• pull_cited_refs() added to pull a publication's cited references (#5)
• pull_related_recs() added to pull a publication's set of related references
• create_ut_quereis() added to create a list of UT-based queries

Misc

• An error is no longer thrown when user attempts IP-based authentication (#6)
• write_wos_data() now creates the directory to write files to if it doesn't already exist

wosr 0.2.0

New functions

• query_wos_apply() and pull_wos_apply() added to issue multiple queries to the WoS API and pull the data for those queries, respectively

Misc

• pull_wos() now returns empty data frames instead of NA if the user's query returns no results
• pull_wos() explicitly casts all string fields to be character vectors, and pull_incites() now correctly casts the esi_most_cited_article field to be a logical vector (instead of a numeric)

wosr 0.1.2

New functions

• write_wos_data() and read_wos_data() added to write the data returned by pull_wos() as a series of CSVs and to read those CSVs back into R

Bug fixes

• pull_wos() now sleeps one second whenever it encounters a throttling limit

wosr 0.1.1

Misc

• The InCites API was updated by Clarivate, including moving to a new endpoint URL and changing the order of fields returned by the "DocumentLevelMetricsByUT" method. Small changes to the internals of pull_incites() were made to reflect this.

wosr 0.1.0

New functions

• auth() added to get a session ID from WoS API server
• query_wos() and pull_wos() added to query and download data from the WoS API, respectively
• pull_incites() added to pull data from the InCites API

wosr documentation built on May 1, 2019, 10:18 p.m.