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rscopus (version 0.9.0)

Scopus Database 'API' Interface

Description

Uses Elsevier 'Scopus' API to download information about authors and their citations.

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install.packages('rscopus')

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0.9.0

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GPL-2

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Maintainer

John Muschelli

Last Published

July 30th, 2025

Functions in rscopus (0.9.0)

get_all_coauthors

Get all Co-Authors
get_affiliation_info

Get Affiliation Information and ID from Scopus
author_search_by_affil

Search Authors by Affiliation on SCOPUS
bibtex_core_data

Makes a bibtex entry from an output of abstract_retrieval or article_retrieval
gen_entries_to_df

Generally Convert Entries into a list of data.frames
entries_to_df

Convert Entries into a data.frame
generic_elsevier_api

Generic Elsevier Search
print.scopus_api_key

Print method for Scopus API key
plumx_metrics

Retrieve PlumX metrics for Scopus documents and other related artifacts
entry_to_affil

SCOPUS Entry to Affiliation
print.token

Print method for token
process_affiliation_name

Process Affiliation Name
recommendation_retrieval

ScienceDirect Article Recommendation Retrieval
replace_non_ascii

Replace non-ASCII characters
get_links

Get Links for next/first/last query
get_complete_author_info

Get Complete Author Information and ID from Scopus
inst_token_header

Add Institution or Authorization Token
nonull

Remove NULL
entries_to_citation_df

List of SCOPUS Entries to Data Frame of Citations
entries_to_affil_list

List of SCOPUS Entries to List of Affiliations Data Frames
multi_author_info

Get Relevant Authors Information from IDs from Scopus
embase_retrieval

SCOPUS Embase Retrieval
get_api_key

Find API Key for Elsevier
entitlement_retrieval

ScienceDirect Text Entitlement Retrieval
get_author_info

Get Relevant Author Information and ID from Scopus in Data Frame
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Pipe operator
object_retrieval

ScienceDirect Object Retrieval
process_author_name

Process Author Name
read_cto

Read Citation Overview (CTO) File
scopus_search

SCOPUS Search
subject_areas

Subject Areas
metadata_retrieval

SCOPUS Citation Retrieval
set_api_key

Set API Key for Elsevier
affil_list_to_df

List of SCOPUS Entries to List of Affiliations Data Frames
affil_df

Search Affiliation Content on SCOPUS
abstract_retrieval

SCOPUS Abstract Retrieval
author_df

Search Author Content on SCOPUS
author_retrieval_id

SCOPUS Author Retrieval
elsevier_authenticate

Authenticate API Key and get Token
complete_multi_author_info

Get Complete Author Information and ID from Scopus
affiliation_retrieval

SCOPUS Affiliation Retrieval
affil_search

Search Author Content on SCOPUS
article_retrieval

ScienceDirect Article Retrieval
author_search

Search Author Content on SCOPUS
all_possible_affils

Find all affiliations
collapse_affil

Collapse Affiliations to one row
citation_retrieval

SCOPUS Citation Retrieval