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
analysis data-analysis data-visualization mdpi metrics scientific-journals visualization web-scraping
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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.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/pgomba/mdpi_explorer
- Owner: pgomba
- License: cc-by-4.0
- Created: 2022-11-26T20:12:28.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-10-16T15:51:17.000Z (9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-18T08:50:10.385Z (9 months ago)
- Topics: analysis, data-analysis, data-visualization, mdpi, metrics, scientific-journals, visualization, web-scraping
- Language: R
- Homepage: https://pgomba.github.io/MDPI_explorer/
- Size: 25.9 MB
- Stars: 19
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 7
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: NEWS.md
- License: LICENSE.md
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README
# MDPIexploreR 
[](https://github.com/pgomba/MDPI_explorer/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml)
[](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)
```
## Citation
If you use `MDPIexploreR` in a publication or report, please cite it. Find the correct citation [here](https://pgomba.github.io/MDPI_explorer/authors.html#citation) or running this code:
``` r
citation("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`: