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Convert OpenAlex collection of authors' records from list format to data frame

Source: R/oa2df.R
authors2df.Rd

It converts bibliographic collection of authors' records gathered from OpenAlex database https://openalex.org/ into data frame. The function converts a list of authors' records obtained using oa_request into a data frame/tibble.

Usage

authors2df(
  data,
  verbose = TRUE,
  pb = if (verbose) oa_progress(length(data)) else NULL
)

Arguments

data

List. Output of oa_request.

verbose

Logical. If TRUE, print information about the dataframe conversion process. Defaults to TRUE.

pb

Progress bar object. If verbose, computed from `oa_progress`. NULL otherwise.

Value

a data.frame.

For more extensive information about OpenAlex API, please visit: <https://docs.openalex.org>

Examples

if (FALSE) {

# Query to search information about all authors affiliated to the University of Naples Federico II
# which have authored at least 100 publications:

# University of Naples Federico II is associated to the OpenAlex id I71267560.


query_author <- oa_query(
  identifier = NULL,
  entity = "authors",
  last_known_institution.id = "I71267560",
  works_count = ">99"
)

res <- oa_request(
  query_url = query_author,
  count_only = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE
)

df <- oa2df(res, entity = "authors")

df
}