R: Web Scraping and Bibliometric Analysis of MDPI Journals

# Web Scraping and Bibliometric Analysis of MDPI Journals

## Documentation for package ‘MDPIexploreR’ version 0.3.0

- DESCRIPTION file
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation
- Package NEWS
- Package README

## Help Pages

agriculture | Article data extracted from MDPI journal Agriculture
article_find | This function retrieves the URLs for all published articles from a specified journal. Users can provide the journal's code 'see MDPI_journals.rda', and the function will return the URLs of all articles available within the journal.
article_info | This function extracts key editorial information from one or more paper URLs. Specifically, it retrieves the submission, revision, and acceptance dates, as well as the article type. The function also calculates the turnaround time (the duration from submission to acceptance) and identifies whether the paper is part of a special issue.
clean_names | This function will standardize the editors and authors names to facilitate matching them to one another.
guest_editor_info | Obtain information from guest edited special issues
horticulturae | Article data extracted from MDPI journal Horticulturae
MDPI_journals | MDPI journal names and code
plot_articles | Plots information obtained from article_info(). For analysis purposes, Editorial and Correction type articles are ignored.
selfcite_check | Calculates number of authors selfcitations against all references
special_issue_find | Retrieves all special issues of a specified journal with URLs. Filters results by issue status (open, closed, or all) and optional year range.
special_issue_info | Obtain information from special issues
topic_find | Retrieves all topics of a specified journal with URLs. Filters results by issue status (open, closed, or all) and optional year range.
topic_info | Obtain information from guest edited topics