authors_georef: Extracts the lat and long for each address from authors_clean

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

Extracts the lat and long for each address from authors_clean

Description

authors_georef This function takes the final author list from refine_authors, and calculates the lat long of the city, country, and postal code (for USA addresses) or city and country (for addresses outside the USA).

Usage

authors_georef(data, address_column = "address", google_api = FALSE)

Arguments

data	dataframe from authors_refine()
address_column	name of column in quotes where the addresses are
google_api	if google_api = FALSE georeferencing is carried out with the tidygeocoder package (option geocode() with method = 'osm'). If google_api = TRUE, then geocoding is done with the Google Maps API. Defaults to FALSE.

Details

The output is a list of three data.frames addresses All info from 'refine_authors' plus new columns with lat & long. It includes ALL addresses, including those that could not be geocoded. missing_addresses A data frame of the addresses that could NOT be geocoded. no_missing_addresses the addresses data frame with ONLY the addresses that were geocoded.

Examples

## Not run: 
BITR_georef_df <- authors_georef(BITR_refined, address_column = "address",
google_api=FALSE)

## End(Not run)

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