rscopus (version 0.8.1)

author_search: Search Author Content on SCOPUS

Description

Searches SCOPUS to get information about documents on an author.

Usage

author_search(
  au_id,
  api_key = NULL,
  http = "https://api.elsevier.com/content/search/author",
  count = 200,
  start = 0,
  verbose = TRUE,
  facets = "subjarea(sort=fd,count=350)",
  searcher = "AU-ID",
  max_count = Inf,
  view = c("STANDARD", "COMPLETE"),
  add_query = NULL,
  headers = NULL,
  wait_time = 0,
  ...
)

Value

List of entries from SCOPUS

Arguments

au_id

Author ID number

api_key

API Key for Elsevier

http

Address for scopus api

count

number of records to retrieve (below 200, see https://dev.elsevier.com/api_key_settings.html)

start

where should the records start gathering

verbose

Print diagnostic messages

facets

Facets sent in query. See https://dev.elsevier.com/api_docs.html

searcher

Identifier for author ID. Do not change unless you know exactly what the API calls for.

max_count

Maximum count of records to be returned.

view

type of view to give, see https://dev.elsevier.com/documentation/AuthorSearchAPI.wadl

add_query

Things to add to the query parameter for the request

headers

additional headers to be added to add_headers

wait_time

The time in seconds to wait across consecutive requests of a single search (when records > 25)

...

Arguments to be passed to the query list for GET

See Also

get_author_info

Examples

if (FALSE) {
author_search(au_id = "Smith", searcher = "affil(princeton) and authlast")
berk = author_search(au_id = "berkeley", searcher = "affil", count =100)
}