CITAN (version 2011.04-1)

dbBiblioDescriptiveStats: Perform preliminary data analysis of data in a local bibliometric storage

Description

Performs preliminary data analysis of data in a local bibliometric storage by displaying some basic descriptive statistics and plots. We may restrict ourselves to some selected document types or a single survey.

Usage

dbBiblioDescriptiveStats(con, DocumentTypes, SurveyDescription,
    which=(1L:7L), main="", ask=(prod(par("mfcol")) < length(which) &&
    dev.interactive()), ..., cex.caption=1)

Arguments

con

a connection object as produced by dbBiblioConnect.

DocumentTypes

character vector or NULL; specifies document types to restrict to; a combination of Article, Article in Press, Book, Conference Paper, Editorial, Erratum, Let

SurveyDescription

single character string or NULL; survey to restrict to or NULL for no restriction.

which

if a subset of the plots is required, specify a subset of the numbers 1:7.

main

title to each plot-in addition to default captions.

ask

logical; if TRUE then the user is asked to press return before each plot.

...

additional graphical parameters, see plot.default.

cex.caption

controls the size of default captions.

Details

Plot types (accessed with which):

• 1--- "Document types",
• 2--- "Publication years",
• 3--- "Citations per document",
• 4--- "Citations of cited documents per type",
• 5--- "Number of pages per document type",
• 6--- "Categories of documents" (based od source categories),
• 7--- "Documents per author".

The user interaction scheme is inspired by the plot.lm code.

See Also

plot.default, dbBiblioConnect

Examples

con <- dbBiblioConnect("Bibliometrics.db");
## ...
dbBiblioDescriptiveStats(con, SurveyDescription="Scientometrics", DocumentTypes=c("Article", "Note", "Report", "Review", "Short Survey"));
## ...
dbDisconnect(con);