special_issue_info {MDPIexploreR} | R Documentation |
Obtain information from special issues
Description
#' Extracts data from special issues, including guest editors' paper counts excluding editorials, time between last submission and issue closure, and whether guest editors served as academic editors for any published papers.
Usage
special_issue_info(journal_urls, sample_size, sleep = 2, show_progress = TRUE)
Arguments
journal_urls |
A list of MDPI special issues URLs |
sample_size |
A number. How many special issues do you want to explore from the main vector. Leave blank for all |
sleep |
Number of seconds between scraping iterations. 2 sec. by default |
show_progress |
Logical. If |
Value
A data frame (class: data.frame
) with the following columns:
- special_issue
The URL of the special issue from which the information is retrieved.
- num_papers
Number of special issues contained in the special issue, not considering editorial type articles
- flags
Number of articles in the special issue with guest editorial pressence
- prop_flag
Proportion of articles in the special issue in which a guest editor is present
- deadline
Time at which the special issue was or will be closed
- latest_sub
Time at which last article present in the special issue was submitted
- rt_sum_vector2
Numeric vector showing number of articles in which each individual guest editor is present
- aca_flag
Number of articles in the special issue where the academic editor is a guest editor too
- d_over_deadline
Day differential between special issue closure and latest article submission
Examples
## Not run:
ge_issue<-"https://www.mdpi.com/journal/plants/special_issues/plant-root"
speciali_info<-special_issue_info(ge_issue)
## End(Not run)