RMendeley (version 1.2)

authors: authors Stats Method (Public Method)

Description

Returns list of top authors of given disipline or overall

Usage

authors(discipline = NULL, upandcoming = FALSE, url = "http://api.mendeley.com/oapi/stats/authors/", key = getOption("MendeleyKey", stop("need an API key for Mendeley")), ..., curl = getCurlHandle())

Arguments

discipline

a numeric code indicating the discipline

upandcoming

logical: give recent/trending top authors only?

url

Mendeley API URL (don't change this)

key

Mendeley API key (otherwise will try and load from package)

curl

If using in a loop, call getCurlHandle() first and pass the returned value in here (avoids unnecessary footprint)

...

optional additional curl options (debugging tools mostly)

Examples

## Not run: 
#   authors()
#   authors(discipline='6') # Discipline '6', Computer Science
# ## End(Not run)