get_article_meta: Scrape meta-data from a single article hosted on Scielo

In meirelesff/rScielo: A Scraper for Scientific Journals Hosted on Scielo

Description

get_article_meta() scrapes meta-data information from an article hosted on Scielo.

Usage

get_article_meta(x)

Arguments

x	a character vector with the link or id of the article hosted on Scielo to be scrapped.

Details

This functions scrapes several meta-data information, such as author's names, article title, year of publication, journal issue and number of pages.

Value

The function returns a tibble with the following variables:

• author: Author name.

• first_author_surname: First author surname.

• institution: Author's institution.

• inst_adress: Author's institution address.

• country: Author's country.

• title: Article title.

• year: Year of publication.

• journal: Journal name.

• volume: Volume.

• number: Number.

• first_page: Article's first page.

• last_page: Article's last page

• abstratc: Article's abstract.

• keywords: Article's keywords.

• article_id:

• doi: DOI.

• n_authors: Number of authors.

• n_pages: Number of pages.

• n_refs: Number of references.

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).

See Also

get_journal

Examples

article_meta <- get_article_meta(x = "http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?
script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-38212016000200201&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en")

meirelesff/rScielo documentation built on Nov. 18, 2021, 9:57 a.m.