find_citing: Identify Potentially Citing Works

In mariolaespinosa/historicalnetworks: Mapping Historical Citation Networks

Description

find_citing identifies those texts within a corpus that potentially cite to a collection of cited works

Usage

find_citing(corpus, df, near, max_distance = 250, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

corpus	A dataframe representing a corpus of downloaded texts generated by build_corpus.
df	A dataframe representing downloaded texts (the "cited works") whose citation histories are sought; see details.
near	An optional regex pattern that, if specified, must be near to a potential citation.
max_distance	The maximum number of words between the near pattern and the potential citation; the default value is 250.
verbose	Should the function provide information about its progress?

Details

The ‘find_citing' function casts a broad net for citing works, returning all works that include the cited work’s author's last name that were published in or after the cited work's year of publication.

Value

A dataframe

Examples

rush1794 <- yf_corpus %>% 
    filter(id = "101283166.nlm.nih.gov")

mentions_rush <- yf_corpus %>% 
    find_citing(rush1794)

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