sourceGrowth: Number of documents published annually per Top Sources
In xiangtuochen/bibliometrixfullname: Comprehensive Science Mapping Analysis

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

It calculates yearly published documents of the top sources.

1	sourceGrowth(M, top = 5, cdf = TRUE)

`M`	is a data frame obtained by the converting function `convert2df`. It is a data matrix with cases corresponding to articles and variables to Field Tag in the original ISI or SCOPUS file.
`top`	is a numeric. It indicates the number of top sources to analyze. The default value is 5.
`cdf`	is a logical. If TRUE, the function calculates the cumulative occurrences distribution.

an object of class data.frame

data(scientometrics, package = "bibliometrixData")
topSO=sourceGrowth(scientometrics, top=1, cdf=TRUE)
topSO

# Plotting results
## Not run: 
install.packages("reshape2")
library(reshape2)
library(ggplot2)
DF=melt(topSO, id='Year')
ggplot(DF,aes(Year,value, group=variable, color=variable))+geom_line()

## End(Not run)