Help: Need to get details of all the dois citing a particular DOI

[shaniAmare]

HI to the developers rcrossref (@sckott, @ropenscibot),

Thank you for this wonderful package!

I was wondering whether there has been any progress with identifying the other publication details citing a DOI? I see some information here saying that it is not implemented in rcrossref : https://ciakovx.github.io/rcrossref.html.

If this is the case, can an expert guide me on an alternative way to do it through R please? Your ideas are really appreciated!

Thanks in advance Shani.

[sckott]

thanks for opening an issue @shaniAmare

please be more specific. what does this mean: "identifying the other publication details citing a DOI" - what are "other publication details"

[shaniAmare]

Thanks for the reply @sckott ... and sorry for the confusion!

By other publication details, I mean particularly the dois of the articles that cite a particular article - similar to the results we see when we click on "Cited by" in Google Scholar .

Is there a way to get this within R somehow? I think if it is achievable, rcrossref might be the only package that can make it happen. Another R package dealing with google scholar, (i.e. scholar package), could only look at scholar profiles and that scholars' citation history.

[sckott]

You can try cr_citation_count function to get count of citations, but you can't get the citations themselves from Crossref.

As mentioned in that tutorial you linked to, you can try the https://github.com/ropenscilabs/citecorp citecorp pkg, a client for the open citation corpus.

[shaniAmare]

Thanks! I will check citecorp out! It would have been nice if there was a function similar to cr_citation_count to get the dois of those counts (i.e. cr_citation_data) through rcrossref. But looking at your code, I understand that, it could be arduous to obtain such a function...

Thanks for all the help, Scott!

Cheers, Shani.

[sckott]

it would have been nice if there was a function similar to cr_citation_count to get the dois of those counts

IT IS NOT POSSIBLE. The data is not made available

[shaniAmare]

Noted- thanks!

[byzheng]

Could we revisit this feature request? I noticed the API in crossref for cited-by (https://www.crossref.org/documentation/cited-by/retrieve-citations/). Not sure whether it is possible to implement.

[sckott]

i no longer maintain this pkg, you can ask @njahn82 though

[njahn82]

Hi @byzheng This service is only for Crossref members, which are publishers. The freely available REST API wrapped by this package lets you only retrieve references.

[byzheng]

Thanks @sckott and @njahn82 for your comments. I find an alternative solutions for citations opencitations (https://opencitations.net/)