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MDPIexploreR

A simple package to explore MDPI´s articles by journal. A series of functions help to obtain lists of papers, obtain data from them (turnaround times, special issues and articles types) and create summary graphs.

https://github.com/pgomba/mdpi_explorer

Science Score: 26.0%

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analysis data-analysis data-visualization mdpi metrics scientific-journals visualization web-scraping
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A simple package to explore MDPI´s articles by journal. A series of functions help to obtain lists of papers, obtain data from them (turnaround times, special issues and articles types) and create summary graphs.

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  • Stars: 21
  • Watchers: 2
  • Forks: 7
  • Open Issues: 0
  • Releases: 3
Topics
analysis data-analysis data-visualization mdpi metrics scientific-journals visualization web-scraping
Created over 3 years ago · Last pushed over 1 year ago
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README.md

MDPIexploreR

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Welcome to the wonders of MDPIexploreR, an R package created to provide comprehensive tools to scrape and analyze data from the MDPI journals. It allows users to extract metrics such as submission-to-acceptance times, article types, and whether articles are part of special issues. The package can also visualize this information through plots. Additionally, MDPIexploreR offers tools to explore patterns of self-citations within articles and provides insights into guest-edited special issues.

Installation

You can install and load MDPIexploreR CRAN version with:

r install.packages("MDPIexploreR") library(MDPIexploreR) or try the latest Github version with:

r devtools::install_github("pgomba/MDPI_explorer") library(MDPIexploreR)

Citation

If you use MDPIexploreR in a publication or report, please cite it. Find the correct citation here or running this code:

``` r citation("MDPIexploreR")

```

Head to Introduction to MDPIexploreR to get a glimpse of the functionalities of MDPIexploreR:

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Last synced: 12 months ago

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  • Total packages: 1
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    • cran 189 last-month
  • Total dependent packages: 0
  • Total dependent repositories: 0
  • Total versions: 2
  • Total maintainers: 1
cran.r-project.org: MDPIexploreR

Web Scraping and Bibliometric Analysis of MDPI Journals

  • Versions: 2
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Downloads: 189 Last month
Rankings
Dependent packages count: 28.0%
Dependent repos count: 34.5%
Average: 49.8%
Downloads: 86.7%
Maintainers (1)
pablogomezbr@hotmail.es
Last synced: 12 months ago

Dependencies

DESCRIPTION cran
  • dplyr * imports
  • ggplot2 * imports
  • lubridate * imports
  • magrittr * imports
  • rvest * imports
  • stringr * imports
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