altmetrics: Grab altmetric data on any paper

In rAltmetric: Retrieves altmerics data for any published paper from altmetric.com

Description

This function will retrieve data from Altmetric.com on any paper with an appropriate object identifier. Acceptable identifiers include dois, arXiv ids, pubmed ids and altmetric ids.

Usage

  altmetrics(oid = NULL, id = NULL, doi = NULL,
    pmid = NULL, arXiv = NULL,
    apikey = getOption("altmetricKey"),
    curl = getCurlHandle(), ...)

Arguments

oid	oid Any object ID. Any general object identifier as long as the prefix is "doi","pmid", "arXiv", or "id".
id	The Altmetric id of a paper. If specifiying directly, the "id" prefix is not necessary.
doi	The doi of a paper. If specifiying directly, the "doi" prefix is not necessary.
pmid	The pmid of a paper.If specifiying directly, the "pmid" prefix is not necessary.
arXiv	The arxiv ID of a paper.If specifiying directly, the "arXiv" prefix is not necessary.
apikey	An API key obtained from altmetric. The key for this application is '37c9ae22b7979124ea650f3412255bf9' and you are free to use it for academic non-commercial research. But if you start seeing rate limits, please contact support at altmetric.com to get your own. The function returns detailed metrics. For more information on all the fields returned by the function, see the API documentation: (http://api.altmetric.com/docs/call_citations.html). If you get your own key, you can save it in your .rprofile as options(altmetricKey="YOUR_KEY")
curl	passes on curl handle in a vectorized operation
...	additional parameters

Value

list

Examples

## Not run: 
altmetrics(doi ='10.1890/ES11-00339.1')
Or specfiy the doi with the id
altmetrics('doi/10.1890/ES11-00339.1')
altmetrics(doi ='10.1038/480426a')
Or specfiy the doi with the id
You can do the same for other providers such as pmid, id, and arxiv
altmetrics('doi/10.1038/480426a')

## End(Not run)

rAltmetric documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:22 p.m.