Package: refsplitr 1.2.0

Emilio Bruna

refsplitr: author name disambiguation, author georeferencing, and mapping of coauthorship networks with 'Web of Science' data

Tools to parse and organize reference records downloaded from the 'Web of Science' citation database into an R-friendly format, disambiguate the names of authors, geocode their locations, and generate/visualize coauthorship networks. This package has been peer-reviewed by rOpenSci (v. 1.0).

Authors:Auriel M.V. Fournier [aut], Matthew E. Boone [aut], Forrest R. Stevens [aut], Emilio Bruna [aut, cre], Bianca Kramer [rev], Najko Jahn [rev]

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# Install 'refsplitr' in R:

install.packages('refsplitr', repos = c('https://ropensci.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Reviews:rOpenSci Software Review #256

Bug tracker:https://github.com/ropensci/refsplitr/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://docs.ropensci.org

Datasets:

BITR - Data from the journal Biotropica
BITR_geocode - Georeferenced data from the journal Biotropica
countries - Names of all the countries in the world

On CRAN:

name disambiguation bibliometrics coauthorship collaboration georeferencing metascience references scientometrics science of science web of science

5.62 score 56 stars 30 scripts 9 exports 96 dependencies

Last updated from:793708726e (on master). Checks:7 NOTE, 3 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
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pkgdown docs	OK	162
source / vignettes	OK	271
linux-release-x86_64	NOTE	283
macos-release-arm64	NOTE	203
macos-oldrel-arm64	NOTE	206
windows-devel	NOTE	259
windows-release	NOTE	239
windows-oldrel	NOTE	229
wasm-release	OK	205

Exports:authors_clean authors_georef authors_refine plot_addresses_country plot_addresses_points plot_net_address plot_net_coauthor plot_net_country references_read

Dependencies:askpass backports base64enc bitops bslib cachem checkmate cli cluster coda colorspace cpp11 crayon curl data.table digest dotCall64 dplyr evaluate farver fastmap fields fontawesome foreign Formula fs generics ggmap ggplot2 glue gridExtra gtable highr Hmisc hms htmlTable htmltools htmlwidgets httr igraph isoband jpeg jquerylib jsonlite knitr labeling lattice lifecycle magrittr maps Matrix memoise mime network nnet openssl pillar pkgconfig plyr png prettyunits progress purrr R6 rappdirs raster RColorBrewer Rcpp rlang rmarkdown rpart rstudioapi rworldmap S7 sass scales sna sp spam statnet.common stringdist stringi stringr sys terra tibble tidygeocoder tidyr tidyselect tinytex utf8 vctrs viridisLite withr xfun yaml

refsplitr

1. Introduction | 2. Using refsplitr | 2.1. Importing Search Results | Example | 2.2. Author address parsing and name disambiguation | 2.2.1. Accepting the results of author disambiguation without manual review | 2.2.2. Reviewing and correcting the results of disambiguation | 2.2.3. Uploading and merging the results of disambiguation | 2.3. Georeferencing author institutions | WARNINGS: | Registering with Google for an API key (NB: this is a paid service) | 2.4. Data Visualization: Productivity and Collaboration | 2.4.1. Visualization 1: Authors per country. | 2.4.2. Visualization 2: Author locations | 2.4.3. Visualization 3: Base coauthorship network | 2.4.4. Visualization 4: Mapped Coauthorships by Author Country | 2.4.5. Visualization 5: Mapped Coauthorships by Author Address | Acknowledgments | References | Appendix 1: Guide to downloading reference records from the Web of Science. | Appendix 2: Web of Science Data Field Definitions | Appendix 3: Reviewing and correcting author name assignments by authors_clean() | Appendix 4: Overview of the refsplitr author name disambiguation algorithm. | Appendix 5: Overview of the refsplitr confidence score calculation.

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Last update: 2025-03-25
Started: 2020-01-16

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Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Seperates author information in references files from 'references_read'	authors_clean
Extracts the lat and long for each address from authors_clean	authors_georef
Refines the authors code output from authors_clean()	authors_refine
Data from the journal Biotropica (pulled from Web of Knowledge)	BITR
Georeferenced data from the journal Biotropica (pulled from Web of Science)	BITR_geocode
Names of all the countries in the world	countries
Plot addresses, the number of which are summed by country_name	plot_addresses_country
Plot address point locations on world map	plot_addresses_points
Creates a network diagram of coauthors' addresses linked by reference, and with nodes arranged geographically	plot_net_address
Creates a network diagram of coauthors' countries linked by reference This function takes an addresses data.frame, links it to an authors_references dataset and plots a network diagram generated for co-authorship.	plot_net_coauthor
Creates a network diagram of coauthors' countries linked by reference, #and with nodes arranged geographically	plot_net_country
Reads Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge/Science and ISI reference export files (both .txt or .ciw format accepted)	references_read