risk.assessr (version 3.0.1)

get_pubmed_by_year: Get Annual PubMed Article Counts for a Search Term

Description

This function queries the NCBI E-utilities API to retrieve the number of PubMed articles published each year over a specified number of past years for a given search term or package name.

Usage

get_pubmed_by_year(
  package_name,
  years_back = 10,
  api_key = getOption("pubmed.api_key", NULL)
)

Value

A data frame with two columns:

Year

The publication year (integer).

Count

The number of articles published in that year (integer).

Returns an empty data frame if no valid data is retrieved.

Arguments

package_name

A character string representing the search term (e.g., an R package name).

years_back

An integer specifying how many years back to query. Defaults to 10.

api_key

Optional. A character string with an NCBI API key. If not supplied, it will attempt to use the option getOption("pubmed.api_key").

Examples

if (FALSE) {
get_pubmed_by_year("ggplot2", years_back = 5)
}