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 (LBS).

Usage

Scopus_ImportSources(conn, impactColumn, verbose=T)

Arguments

conn

a connection object as produced by lbsConnect.

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

verbose

logical; TRUE to inform about the progress of the process.

Value

TRUE on success.

Details

This routine should be called prior to importing any document information to the LBS with the function lbsImportDocuments.

If multiple sources with the same ISSN (either Print-ISSN or E-ISSN) are found in Scopus_SourceList then only the first matching record is added to the table Biblio_Sources. Additionally, a warning is generated.

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 LBS.

Examples

Run this code

conn <- lbsConnect("Bibliometrics.db");
lbsCreate(conn);
Scopus_ImportSources(conn);
## ...
dbDisconnect(conn);

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