Package: MDPIexploreR 0.2.1

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:

analysis data-analysis data-visualization mdpi metrics scientific-journals visualization web-scraping

5.15 score 20 stars 1 scripts 189 downloads 8 exports 46 dependencies

Last updated 2 hours agofrom:40ccceedd7. Checks:OK: 5 NOTE: 2. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Date
Doc / Vignettes	OK	Nov 23 2024
R-4.5-win	OK	Nov 23 2024
R-4.5-linux	OK	Nov 23 2024
R-4.4-win	NOTE	Nov 23 2024
R-4.4-mac	NOTE	Nov 23 2024
R-4.3-win	OK	Nov 23 2024
R-4.3-mac	OK	Nov 23 2024

Exports:article_find article_info clean_names guest_editor_info MDPI_journals plot_articles selfcite_check special_issue_find

Dependencies:askpass cli colorspace cpp11 curl dplyr fansi farver generics ggplot2 glue gtable httr isoband jsonlite labeling lattice lifecycle lubridate magrittr MASS Matrix mgcv mime munsell nlme openssl pillar pkgconfig R6 RColorBrewer rlang rvest scales selectr stringi stringr sys tibble tidyselect timechange utf8 vctrs viridisLite withr xml2

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Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Article data extracted from MDPI journal Agriculture	agriculture
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 issues	guest_editor_info
Article data extracted from MDPI journal Horticulturae	horticulturae
MDPI journal names and code	MDPI_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 references	selfcite_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