applyCitationMatching: applyCitationMatching (Deprecated)

Description

Deprecated in bibliometrix 6.0. This function has been renamed to applyReferenceMatching. Please use applyReferenceMatching() instead.

Usage

applyCitationMatching(
  M,
  threshold = 0.9,
  method = "jw",
  min_chars = 20,
  max_block_size = 100,
  use_iso4 = TRUE,
  use_doi = TRUE,
  use_exact = TRUE,
  fuzzy = TRUE,
  use_postproc = TRUE,
  title_guard = FALSE
)

Value

Same as applyReferenceMatching.

Arguments

M

A bibliometrix data frame, typically created by convert2df. Must contain the columns:

SR: Short reference identifier for each document
CR: Cited references field (citations separated by semicolons)
DB: (Optional) Database source identifier for format detection

threshold

Numeric value between 0 and 1 indicating the similarity threshold for matching citations. Default is 0.90. See normalize_citations for details on selecting appropriate thresholds.

method

String distance method to use for fuzzy matching. Options include:

"jw" (default): Jaro-Winkler distance, optimized for bibliographic strings
"lv": Levenshtein distance
"osa": Optimal String Alignment distance
"lcs": Longest Common Subsequence distance
Other methods supported by stringdistmatrix

min_chars

Minimum characters for valid citations (default: 20).

max_block_size

Integer. Blocks with at least this many unique normalized strings skip within-block fuzzy matching and fall back to exact matching only (default: 100). Passed to normalize_citations.

use_iso4

Logical. Enable ISO 4 / LTWA journal normalization (default TRUE).

use_doi

Logical. Enable DOI-based exact matching (default TRUE).

use_exact

Logical. Enable exact normalized-string and punctuation-invariant matching (default TRUE).

fuzzy

Logical. Enable within-block (WoS deterministic and Scopus fuzzy) matching (default TRUE).

use_postproc

Logical. Enable Phase 4.5 metadata-based post-processing merge (default TRUE). These five logical switches are intended primarily for ablation analyses and are passed through to normalize_citations.

title_guard

Logical. Enable the optional Phase 4.6 series part-marker cluster purification that splits over-merged multi-part works (default FALSE). Passed through to normalize_citations.