bibliography-class

Class 'bibliography' is an S3 class designed to store data from common bibliographic formats in a standard way. It is a nested list format; each object is a list containing multiple references, where each reference is a list with information on author, journal etc. Because different formats code their information differently, class bibliography uses bib-like headings to ensure that reference names give a meaningful description of its' content (i.e. 'author' instead of 'AU'). This means that an .ris or medline and pubmed files have their tags converted on import by <code>read_bibliography</code>, while .bib tags are not altered.

Researchers commonly need to summarize scientific information, a process known as 'evidence synthesis'. The first stage of a synthesis process (such as a systematic review or meta-analysis) is to download a list of references from academic search engines such as 'Web of Knowledge' or 'Scopus'. This information can be sorted manually (the traditional approach to systematic review), or the user can draw on tools from machine learning to help them visualise patterns in the corpus. 'revtools' uses topic models to render ordinations of text drawn from article titles, keywords and abstracts, and allows the user to interactively select or exclude individual references, words or topics. 'revtools' does not currently provide tools for analysis of data drawn from those references, features that are available in other packages such as 'metagear' or 'metafor'.

Martin J Westgate

revtools

Tools to Support Evidence Synthesis

bibliography-class function

Class 'bibliography' will import all information given in a file, and will attempt to assign it to a sensible heading. Possible entry names are (in this order):<ul>
<li>type tag 'TY'</li>
<li>author tags 'AU' or 'A' followed by 1:5</li>
<li>year tags 'PY'or 'Y1'</li>
<li>title tags 'TI' or 'T1'</li>
<li>journal tags 'JO', 'T2', 'T3', 'SO', 'JT', 'JF' or 'JA'</li>
<li>volume tag 'VL'</li>
<li>issue tag 'IS'</li>
<li>pages one or more of tags 'EP', 'BP' or 'SP'</li>
<li>abstract tags 'AB' or 'N2'</li>
<li>keywords tags 'KW' or 'DE'</li>
<li>doi tag 'DO'</li>
<li>call tag 'CN'</li>
<li>issn tag 'SN'</li>
<li>url tag 'UR'</li>
<li>accession tag 'AN'</li>
<li>institution tag 'CY'</li>
<li>publisher tag 'PB'</li>
<li>pubplace tag 'PP'</li>
<li>address tag 'AD'</li>
<li>editor tag 'ED'</li>
<li>edition tag 'ET'</li>
<li>language tag 'LA'</li>
<li>further_info any unallocated information</li>
</ul>

bibliography-class: Description of class 'bibliography'

Description

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