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https://github.com/pgomba/mdpi_explorer

A simple package to explore MDPI´s articles by journal. A series of functions help to obtain lists of papers, obtain data from them (turnaround times, special issues and articles types) and create summary graphs.
https://github.com/pgomba/mdpi_explorer

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A simple package to explore MDPI´s articles by journal. A series of functions help to obtain lists of papers, obtain data from them (turnaround times, special issues and articles types) and create summary graphs.

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# MDPIexploreR

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[![CRAN status](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/MDPIexploreR)](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=MDPIexploreR)

Welcome to the wonders of `MDPIexploreR`, an R package created to provide comprehensive tools to scrape and analyze data from the MDPI journals. It allows users to extract metrics such as submission-to-acceptance times, article types, and whether articles are part of special issues. The package can also visualize this information through plots. Additionally, `MDPIexploreR` offers tools to explore patterns of self-citations within articles and provides insights into guest-edited special issues.

## Installation

You can install and load `MDPIexploreR` CRAN version with:

``` r
install.packages("MDPIexploreR")
library(MDPIexploreR)
```
or try the latest Github version with:

``` r
devtools::install_github("pgomba/MDPI_explorer")
library(MDPIexploreR)
```

Head to [Introduction to `MDPIexploreR`](https://pgomba.github.io/MDPI_explorer/articles/introduction_MDPIexploreR.html) to get a glimpse of the functionalities of `MDPIexploreR`: