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Source: NEWS.md

openalexR (development version)

  • Bug fixes
  • Prepare for Walden data-version=2

openalexR 2.0.2

CRAN release: 2025-10-21

  • Fix CRAN R CMD check issues

openalexR 2.0.0

CRAN release: 2025-04-05

  • Breaking changes in column names in the output of oa_fetch:

    • Works:
      • so is now source_display_name
      • so_id is now source_id
      • host_organization now contains the id of the host organization
      • host_organization_name now contains the name of the host organization
      • ab is now abstract
      • url is now landing_page_url
      • author is now authorships
      • the nested columns under authors no longer have the au prefix
      • New columns: fwci, referenced_works_count, keywords
    • Authors:
      • affiliation* is removed
      • New columns: last_known_institutions, 2yr_mean_citedness, h_index, i10_index

  • Removed concepts as an entity

  • Added keywords as an entity

  • Added get_coverage() to track the oa2df-mapped columns of OpenAlex fields

  • Deprecated oa2bibliometrix(). Use bibliometrix::convert2df() (from the bibliometrix R package) instead.

openalexR 1.4.0

CRAN release: 2024-07-11

  • “topics” are now a valid entity in oa_fetch
  • The column “topics” replaces concepts in most entities’ returned dataframes
  • For Works, “topics” and “concepts” are now returned as separate columns

openalexR 1.3.1

CRAN release: 2024-05-08

  • solved bug in au_affiliation_raw in PR#241

openalexR 1.3.0

CRAN release: 2024-05-03

  • Breaking change: two arguments in oa_snowball are renamed: citing_filter is now citing_params, and cited_by_filter is now cited_by_params.
  • Introduced oa_generate: A generator function to make request to OpenAlex API and returns one record at a time.
  • Fixed queries with group_by.
  • Improved paging control: the user can now specify the pages they want in oa_fetch or oa_request.
  • Improve oa_snowball performance.
  • Allowed the use of options$sample with search.
  • “venues”” is no longer a valid value for entity. Use “sources” instead.

openalexR 1.2.2

CRAN release: 2023-09-24

  • solved issue with CRAN test

openalexR 1.2.1

CRAN release: 2023-09-01

  • many improvements in bibliometrix support
  • solved issue with CRAN test

openalexR 1.2.0

CRAN release: 2023-08-08

  • many improvements in oa_snowball
  • added new openalex entities
  • solved CRAN issue about packageVersion()

openalexR 1.1.0

CRAN release: 2023-05-04

  • Basic paging is applied when using options$sample
  • Bug fixes for rbind in oa2df

openalexR 1.0.2.9

CRAN release: 2023-04-01

  • Breaking change: Reorder of the first two arguments in oa_fetch: entity now comes before idenfitifier. This should not affect your workflow too much unless you have been getting article information from OpenAlex IDs.
  • new arguments to oa_fetch: sample and seed allows the user to download a random subset of the entities instead of the entire set.
  • oa_ngrams gets you N-grams of works
  • abstract now defaults to TRUE to avoid issues.
  • New argument to oa_fetch: api_key
  • Arguments sample, seed, sort, and select are now grouped into options.
  • Bug fixes
  • Improved documentation: group functions in Reference, details on search, etc.

openalexR 1.0.1

  • Improve snowball #9.
  • Batch queries when a filter has more than 50 values #18.
  • Bug fixes.
  • Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

openalexR 1.0.0

CRAN release: 2022-10-06

  • Breaking change: now uses a more canonical way to filter #7.
  • In oa_fetch, abstract now defaults to FALSE to save compute/query time/space. You will need to set abstract = TRUE to retrieve abstracts for the articles.
  • Added website, hex.
  • Added tests.
  • Added R CMD CHECK as a GH Action
  • Bug fixes.
  • Added vignettes.

openalexR 0.0.2

  • Some bug fixes

openalexR 0.0.1

CRAN release: 2022-04-22

  • First CRAN release