citationchaser (version 0.0.4)

get_citation: Find citation based on identifier

Description

This function takes a list of articles in the form of established identifiers (e.g. digital object identifiers) and sends a request to the lens.org API to obtain full citation information from the Lens database for all sought articles.

Usage

get_citation(
  article_list,
  type = "doi",
  token = "WCFlpCtuJXYI1sDhZcZ8y7hHpri0SEmTnLNkeU4OEM5JTQRNXB9w"
)

Arguments

article_list

List of article identifiers for which the reference lists will be returned. Must be a list/vector of identifiers, e.g. '"10.1186/s13750-018-0126-2" "10.1002/jrsm.1378"'.

type

Specification of the type of input provided. The default is 'doi' (digital object identifier), but any of the following are accepted: "pmid" (PubMed ID), "pmcid" (PubMed Central ID), "magid" (Microsoft Academic ID), "coreid" (CORE identifier), lens_id" (The Lens.org ID), "title" (article title; much lower specificity).

token

An access key for the lens.org API. Tokens can be obtained by applying for scholarly API access and creating a token once approved. See 'https://www.lens.org/lens/user/subscriptions#scholar' for further details.

Value

A dataframe containing the matching citation from Lens.org.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
article_list <- c("10.1007/978-3-642-37048-9_13", "10.1111/sum.12030", 
"10.5194/bg-13-3619-2016", "10.1016/j.agee.2012.09.006")
results <- get_citation(article_list)
articles <- results$display
# }