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Convert OpenAlex collection from data frame to bibliometrix object

Source: R/oa2bibliometrix.R
oa2bibliometrix.Rd

It converts bibliographic collections gathered from OpenAlex database https://openalex.org/ into a bibliometrix data frame (https://bibliometrix.org/) Column names follow https://images.webofknowledge.com/images/help/WOS/hs_wos_fieldtags.html.

Usage

oa2bibliometrix(df)

Arguments

df

is bibliographic collection of works donwloaded from OpenALex.

Value

a data.frame with class "bibliometrix".

Examples

if (FALSE) {

# Query to search all works citing the article:
#  Aria, M., & Cuccurullo, C. (2017). bibliometrix:
#   An R-tool for comprehensive science mapping analysis.
#   Journal of informetrics, 11(4), 959-975.

#  published in 2021.
#  The paper is associated to the OpenAlex id W2755950973.

#  Results have to be sorted by relevance score in a descending order.

query <- oa_query(
  identifier = NULL,
  entity = "works",
  cites = "W2755950973",
  from_publication_date = "2021-01-01",
  to_publication_date = "2021-12-31",
  search = NULL,
  endpoint = "https://api.openalex.org"
)

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

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

M <- oa2bibliometrix(df)
}