citationchaser
Perform forward and backward citation chasing as part of an evidence synthesis project
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Perform forward and backward citation chasing as part of an evidence synthesis project
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: nealhaddaway
- Language: R
- Default Branch: master
- Homepage: https://estech.shinyapps.io/citationchaser
- Size: 1.65 MB
Statistics
- Stars: 125
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 10
- Open Issues: 16
- Releases: 4
Topics
Metadata Files
README.md
citationchaser 
In searching for research articles, we often want to obtain lists of references from across studies, and also obtain lists of articles that cite a particular study. In systematic reviews, this supplementary search technique is known as 'citation chasing': forward citation chasing looks for all records citing one or more articles of known relevance; backward citation chasing looks for all records referenced in one or more articles.
Traditionally, this process would be done manually, and the resulting records would need to be checked one-by-one against included studies in a review to identify potentially relevant records that should be included in a review.
This package contains functions to automate this process by making use of the Lens.org API. An input article list can be used to return a list of all referenced records, and/or all citing records in the Lens.org database (consisting of PubMed, PubMed Central, CrossRef, Microsoft Academic Graph and CORE; 'https://www.lens.org').
USERS MUST OBTAIN A TOKEN FOR THE LENS.ORG SCHOLARLY API (available for free here). The API may be time limited, but not rate limited. Requests for tokens may need initial approval from The Lens.
A shiny app version of the package is available here. This version requires no Lens.org API and is immediately usable and ENTIRELY FREE.
Install the package using the following code:
devtools::install_github("nealhaddaway/citationchaser")
Please cite as:
Haddaway, N. R., Grainger, M. J., Gray, C. T. 2021. citationchaser: An R package and Shiny app for forward and backward citations chasing in academic searching. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4543513
Citation in .ris format (right click 'Save Link As')
Owner
- Name: Neal Haddaway
- Login: nealhaddaway
- Kind: user
- Location: Stockholm
- Company: Stockholm Environment Institute
- Website: www.nealhaddaway.com
- Twitter: nealhaddaway
- Repositories: 7
- Profile: https://github.com/nealhaddaway
Experienced systematic review methodologist, novice package developer, co-founder of the Evidence Synthesis Hackathon. Senior Research Fellow at SEI.
Citation (citationchaser.Rproj)
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GitHub Events
Total
- Issues event: 2
- Watch event: 13
- Issue comment event: 7
- Push event: 1
Last Year
- Issues event: 2
- Watch event: 13
- Issue comment event: 7
- Push event: 1
Committers
Last synced: 9 months ago
Top Committers
| Name | Commits | |
|---|---|---|
| Neal Haddaway | n****y@N****l | 55 |
| Neal Haddaway | n****y@h****m | 29 |
| Matthew Grainger | m****r@n****o | 6 |
| Jacob R. Peacock | j****9@g****m | 2 |
| Quentin Geissmann | q****n@g****m | 1 |
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Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: 9 months ago
All Time
- Total issues: 31
- Total pull requests: 10
- Average time to close issues: about 2 months
- Average time to close pull requests: 2 days
- Total issue authors: 15
- Total pull request authors: 4
- Average comments per issue: 2.06
- Average comments per pull request: 0.7
- Merged pull requests: 9
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Past Year
- Issues: 5
- Pull requests: 0
- Average time to close issues: 3 days
- Average time to close pull requests: N/A
- Issue authors: 5
- Pull request authors: 0
- Average comments per issue: 4.2
- Average comments per pull request: 0
- Merged pull requests: 0
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Top Authors
Issue Authors
- nealhaddaway (8)
- DrMattG (5)
- mcguinlu (3)
- jpeacock29 (3)
- Mailinnia (1)
- chantaldenhaan (1)
- copariuc (1)
- aarontaycheehsien (1)
- ConstantinResearch (1)
- GCamp6 (1)
- jc2249 (1)
- befriendabacterium (1)
- tkwong94 (1)
- bradleymecham (1)
- domenicrosati (1)
Pull Request Authors
- DrMattG (4)
- nealhaddaway (4)
- jpeacock29 (2)
- qgeissmann (1)
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