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Extract author information

Source: R/authors.R
jst_get_authors.Rd

jst_get_authors() extracts information about authors from JSTOR-XML files.

Usage

jst_get_authors(file_path)

Arguments

file_path

A .xml-file from JSTOR containing meta-data.

Value

A tibble containing the extracted authors. All empty fields are NA_character.

Details

The function returns a tibble with the following six columns:

  • prefix: in case there was a prefix to the name, like "Dr.".

  • given_name: The author's given name, like "Albert".

  • surname: The author's surname like "Einstein".

  • string_name: In some cases data the name is not available in separate fields, but just as a complete string: "Albert Einstein".

  • suffix: a suffix to the name, like "Jr.".

  • author_number: The authors are enumerated in the order they appear in the data.

Examples

jst_get_authors(jst_example("article_with_references.xml"))
#> # A tibble: 1 × 7
#>   file_name           prefix given_name surname string_name suffix author_number
#>   <chr>               <chr>  <chr>      <chr>   <chr>       <chr>          <int>
#> 1 article_with_refer… NA     R.         Kudo    NA          NA                 1