match_authors: Approximate Authors' Names Matching

In rubenfcasal/scimetr: Analysis of Scientific Publication Data with R

Approximate Authors' Names Matching

Description

Approximate string matching between character vectors containing authors' names (equivalents of R's native match).

Usage

match_authors(
  authors,
  table,
  weight = c(family = 0.9, name = 0.1),
  max.dist = 0.2,
  attr.dist = FALSE
)

Arguments

authors	author names to be approximately matched.
table	lookup table for matching.
weight	weights associated with differences in family names and in first names.
max.dist	maximum distance between strings to be matched.
attr.dist	logical; indicating whether to optionally return the distances (weighted proporpion of names coincidences) as the "dist" attribute of the return value.

Value

Returns a vector of the positions of the closest matches of its first argument in its second. When multiple matches with the same smallest distance exist, the first one is returned. When no match is found NA_integer_ is returned.

See Also

adist_authors.

rubenfcasal/scimetr documentation built on April 27, 2023, 3:42 p.m.