authors_clean: Seperates author information in references files from...

In embruna/refsplitr: author name disambiguation, author georeferencing, and mapping of coauthorship networks with 'Web of Science' data

Description

authors_clean This function takes the output from references_read and cleans the author information.

Usage

authors_clean(references)

Arguments

references

output from references_read

Details

Information on addresses, emails, ORCIDs, etc are matched.

It then attempts to match same author entries together into likely author groups based on common full names, addresses, emails, ORCIDs etc.

Records that are not matched this way have a Jaro-Winkler similiarty analysis metric calculated for all possible matching author names.

This calculates the amount of character similarities based on distance of similar character.

Examples

## Load the refsplitr sample dataset "BITR" 
data(BITR) 
BITR_clean <- authors_clean(BITR)

## The output of authors_clean is a list with two elements, 
## which can be assigend to dataframes.
BITR_review_df <- BITR_clean$review
BITR_prelim_df <- BITR_clean$prelim

## Users can save the these dataframes outside of R as .csv files.
## The "review_df.csv" is then used to review the groupID or authorID 
## assignments and make any necessary corrections. 
## The function "authors_refine" is used to load and merge the changes 
## into R and create a dataframe used for analyses. 

embruna/refsplitr documentation built on Feb. 8, 2022, 4:11 a.m.