CITAN (version 2011.04-1)

Scopus_ImportSources: Import SciVerse Scopus coverage information and ASJC codes to a local bibliometric storage

Description

Imports SciVerse Scopus covered titles and their ASJC codes to an empty local bibliometric storage.

Usage

Scopus_ImportSources(con, impactColumn, updateSourceIfExists=FALSE,
    verbose=T)

Arguments

con

a connection object as produced by dbBiblioConnect.

impactColumn

single character value determining column name in Scopus_SourceList with values of some source impact measurements to be imported, e.g. "SJR_2009", or NULL if no such dat

updateSourceIfExists

logical; if FALSE, in case of sources with the same ISSN only the first will be added.

verbose

logical; TRUE to print out the progress of lengthy computations.

Value

• TRUE on success.

Details

The function should be called prior to importing any document information to the bibliometric storage with dbBiblioImportDocuments.

If multiple sources with the same ISSN (either Print-ISSN or E-ISSN) are found in Scopus_SourceList and updateSourceIfExists is FALSE, then only the first matching record is added to the table Biblio_Sources. Additionally, a warning is generated. Otherwise, the last non-unique record is taken into account. Note that adding all the sources takes some time.

Only basic ASJC and SciVerse Scopus source information retrieved from Scopus_ASJC (stored in the table Biblio_Categories) and Scopus_SourceList (stored in tables Biblio_Countries and Biblio_Sources) will be added to the bibliometric storage.

See Also

Scopus_ASJC, Scopus_SourceList, Scopus_ReadCSV, dbBiblioConnect, dbBiblioCreate

Examples

con <- dbBiblioConnect("survey007.db");
dbBiblioCreate(con);
Scopus_ImportSources(con);
dbDisconnect(con);