Package: MDPIexploreR Title: Web Scraping and Bibliometric Analysis of MDPI Journals Version: 0.3.0 URL: https://github.com/pgomba/MDPI_exploreR Authors@R: person("Pablo","Gómez Barreiro", ,"pablogomezbr@hotmail.es", role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3140-3326")) Description: 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. VignetteBuilder: knitr License: CC BY 4.0 Encoding: UTF-8 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE) RoxygenNote: 7.3.2 LazyData: true Imports: dplyr, ggplot2, lubridate, magrittr, rvest, scales, stringr, tidyr Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown Config/pak/sysreqs: libicu-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev Repository: https://pgomba.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2025-03-19 21:33:16 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/pgomba/mdpi_explorer RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 27fd2a76d4f78b9e1712240b9d88ea8ddbd72914 NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-07-12 07:27:28 UTC; root Author: Pablo Gómez Barreiro [aut, cre] (ORCID: ) Maintainer: Pablo Gómez Barreiro Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)