Open DominiqueMakowski opened 6 years ago
Associating publications with journal impact factors is a nice feature to have, but a more immediate issue I think is to uniquely identify the journals, which Google Scholar does not do.
The sjr data available in the package seems outdated. Updated data is available here: https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?out=xls
Below is a modified version of get_journalrank()
to download an updated version. (Please note that I'm using readr::read_csv2 due to problems with decimal separators in the scimago table and that readr has some parsing errors, that are due to missing quotes in the scimago data table).
get_journalrank <- function (journals, max.distance = 0.05) {
readr::read_csv2("https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?out=xls")-> myjournalrankings
scholar:::get_journal_stats(journals, max.distance, myjournalrankings, col= "Title")
}
Just discovered this nice package for extracting the SJR index of journals' prestige. It could potentially be a nice addition to the impact_factor related functions.
Specifically, as it includes the SJR index for different years, it would provide a unique opportunity to compute this index for each author's publication at their time of publication. Could be interesting for developing new authors' impact metrics.