Function reference • openalexR

Main functions

oa_fetch(): Fetching records

oa_snowball(): A function to perform a snowball search and convert the result to a tibble/data frame.

oa_ngrams(): Get N-grams of works

oa_random(): oa_fetch but for a random query

Utility functions

show_authors(): Simplify the OpenAlex authors result

show_works(): Simplify the OpenAlex works result

Low-level functions

oa_query(): Generate an OpenAlex query from a set of parameters

oa_request(): Get bibliographic records from OpenAlex database

oa_generate(): Iterating through records

To dataframe

convert the JSON object to tibble/dataframe

authors2df(): Convert OpenAlex collection of authors' records from list format to data frame

concepts2df(): Convert OpenAlex collection of concepts' records from list format to data frame

funders2df(): Convert OpenAlex collection of funders' records from list format to data frame

institutions2df(): Convert OpenAlex collection of institutions' records from list format to data frame

oa2df(): Convert OpenAlex collection from list to data frame

publishers2df(): Convert OpenAlex collection of publishers' records from list format to data frame

snowball2df(): Flatten snowball result

sources2df(): Convert OpenAlex collection of sources' records from list format to data frame

works2df(): Convert OpenAlex collection of works from list format to data frame

Data and others

countrycode: Index of Countries and their alpha-2 and aplha-3 codes.

concept_abbrev: Concepts and abbreviations.

oa_entities(): Available entities in the OpenAlex database

oa2bibliometrix(): Convert OpenAlex collection from data frame to bibliometrix object