bibliometrix (version 1.4)

biblioAnalysis: Bibliometric Analysis

Description

It performs a bibliometric analysis of a dataset imported from SCOPUS and Thomson Reuters' ISI Web of Knowledge databases.

Usage

biblioAnalysis(M, sep = ";")

Arguments

M

is a bibliographic data frame obtained by the converting function convert2df. It is a data matrix with cases corresponding to manuscripts and variables to Field Tag in the original SCOPUS and Thomson Reuters' ISI Web of Knowledge file.

sep

is the field separator character. This character separates strings in each column of the data frame. The default is sep = ";".

Value

biblioAnalysis returns an object of class "bibliometrix".The functions summary and plot are used to obtain or print a summary and some useful plots of the results.An object of class "bibliometrix" is a list containing the following components:

Articles
the total number of manuscripts	Authors
	the authors' frequency distribution
AuthorsFrac
the authors' frequency distribution (fractionalized)	FirstAuthors
	first author of each manuscript
nAUperPaper
the number of authors per manuscript	Apparences
	the number of author apparences
nAuthors
the number of authors	AuMultiAuthoredArt
	the number of authors of multi authored articles
MostCitedPapers
The list of manuscripts sorted by citations	Years
	pubblication year of each manuscript
FirstAffiliation
the affiliation of the first author	Affiliations
	the frequency distribution of affiliations (of all co-authors for each paper)
Aff_frac
the fractionalized frequency distribution of affiliations (of all co-authors for each paper)	CO
	the affiliation country of first author
Countries
the affiliation countries' frequency distribution	TotalCitation
	the number of times each manuscript has been cited
TCperYear
the yearly average number of times each manuscript has been cited	Sources
	the frequency distribution of sources (journals, books, etc.)
DE
the frequency distribution of authors' keywords	Articles

See Also

convert2df to import and convert an ISI or SCOPUS Export file in a bibliographic data frame.

summary to obtain a summary of the results.

plot to draw some useful plots of the results.

Examples

data(scientometrics)

results <- biblioAnalysis(scientometrics)

summary(results, k = 10, pause = FALSE)