Package: MDPIexploreR 0.3.0

MDPIexploreR: Web Scraping and Bibliometric Analysis of MDPI Journals

Provides 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.

Authors:Pablo Gómez Barreiro [aut, cre]

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NEWS

# Install 'MDPIexploreR' in R:
install.packages('MDPIexploreR', repos = c('https://pgomba.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/pgomba/mdpi_explorer/issues

Datasets:
  • agriculture - Article data extracted from MDPI journal Agriculture
  • horticulturae - Article data extracted from MDPI journal Horticulturae

On CRAN:

Conda:

analysisdata-analysisdata-visualizationmdpimetricsscientific-journalsvisualizationweb-scraping

5.32 score 21 stars 9 scripts 161 downloads 11 exports 41 dependencies

Last updated from:27fd2a76d4. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

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Exports:article_findarticle_infoclean_namesguest_editor_infoMDPI_journalsplot_articlesselfcite_checkspecial_issue_findspecial_issue_infotopic_findtopic_info

Dependencies:askpassclicpp11curldplyrfarvergenericsggplot2gluegtablehttrisobandjsonlitelabelinglifecyclelubridatemagrittrmimeopensslpillarpkgconfigpurrrR6RColorBrewerrlangrvestS7scalesselectrstringistringrsystibbletidyrtidyselecttimechangeutf8vctrsviridisLitewithrxml2

Obtaining articles data

Rendered fromarticle_functions.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Jun 12 2026.

Last update: 2024-11-23
Started: 2024-11-23

Using plot_articles()

Rendered fromplot_articles.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Jun 12 2026.

Last update: 2024-11-27
Started: 2024-11-27

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help pageTopics
Article data extracted from MDPI journal Agricultureagriculture
This function retrieves the URLs for all published articles from a specified journal. Users can provide the journal's code 'see MDPI_journals.rda', and the function will return the URLs of all articles available within the journal.article_find
This function extracts key editorial information from one or more paper URLs. Specifically, it retrieves the submission, revision, and acceptance dates, as well as the article type. The function also calculates the turnaround time (the duration from submission to acceptance) and identifies whether the paper is part of a special issue.article_info
This function will standardize the editors and authors names to facilitate matching them to one another.clean_names
Obtain information from guest edited special issuesguest_editor_info
Article data extracted from MDPI journal Horticulturaehorticulturae
MDPI journal names and codeMDPI_journals
Plots information obtained from article_info(). For analysis purposes, Editorial and Correction type articles are ignored.plot_articles
Calculates number of authors selfcitations against all referencesselfcite_check
Retrieves all special issues of a specified journal with URLs. Filters results by issue status (open, closed, or all) and optional year range.special_issue_find
Obtain information from special issuesspecial_issue_info
Retrieves all topics of a specified journal with URLs. Filters results by issue status (open, closed, or all) and optional year range.topic_find
Obtain information from guest edited topicstopic_info