refsplitr: author name disambiguation, author georeferencing, and mapping of coauthorship networks with Web of Science data.
refsplitr (v1.0) is an R package to parse and organize reference records downloaded from the Web of Science citation database, disambiguate the names of authors, geocode their locations, and generate/visualize coauthorship networks. The Web of Science (WOS) is a toll-access literature and citation database maintained by Clarivate Analytics that indexes articles from ~12,000 academic journals. WOS records include a diversity of data about each article (e.g., article title, journal name, author names, author addresses, number of times the article has been cited, funding sources), making them very useful for studying patterns of scientific productivity, coauthorship, research impact, and other Science of Science topics. Because bulk WOS records and API access to the WOS are very expensive, researchers at WOS-subscribing institutions often gather data by conducting WOS searches and downloading reference records in batches. However, this requires a cumbersome process of extracting, merging, and correcting data from the downloaded records prior to conducting any analyses. refsplitr will rapidly merge and process reference data files downloaded from the WOS, and then process and organize them in a format amenable for use in scientometric, social network, and Science of Science analyses.
Support for the development of refsplitr was provided by grants from the University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies and the University of Florida Informatics Institute.
You can install the development version from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ropensci/refsplitr")
There are four steps in the refsplitr
package's workflow:
ggmap
repository and the instructions below.)The procedures required for these four steps,each of which is implemented with a simple command, are described in detail in the refsplitr
vignette. An example of this workflow is provided below:
dat1 <- references_read(data = system.file("extdata", "example_data.txt", package = "refsplitr"), dir = FALSE)
dat2 <- authors_clean(references = dat1)
dat3 <- authors_refine(dat2$review, dat2$prelim)
dat4 <- authors_georef(dat3)
plot_net_address(dat4$addresses)
ggmap
package install.packages("ggmap")
library(ggmap)
Register for a Google Geocoding API by following the instructions on the READ ME
of the ggmap
repository.
Once you have your API key, add it to your ~/.Renviron
with the following:
ggmap::register_google(key = "[your key]", write = TRUE)
authors_georef()
as described in the vignette. WARNING: refsplitr
currently has a limit of 2500 API calls per day. We are working on including the ability for users to select their own limits.Remember: Your API key is unique and for you alone. Don't share it with other users or record it in a script file that is saved in a public repository. If need be you can visit the same website where you initially registered and generate a new key.
We welcome any suggestions for package improvement or ideas for features to include in future versions. If you have Issues, Feature Requests and Pull Requests, here is how to contribute. We expect everyone contributing to the package to abide by our Code of Conduct.
The refsplitr package has been described in an article in the Journal of Open Source Software. We request that you cite both the package and the publication when using refsplitr in your work.
Auriel M.V. Fournier, Matthew E. Boone, Forrest R. Stevens, and Emilio M. Bruna Developer (2020). refsplitr: author name disambiguation, author georeferencing, and mapping of coauthorship networks with Web of Science data. R package version 1.0.1. https://github.com/ropensci/refsplitr
@Manual{refsplitr2020,
title = {refsplitr: author name disambiguation, author georeferencing,
and mapping of coauthorship networks with Web of Science data.},
author = {Fournier, Auriel M.V., Matthew E. Boone, Forrest R. Stevens, and Emilio M. Bruna},
year = {2020},
note = {R package version 1.0.1.},
url={https://github.com/ropensci/refsplitr}
}
Fournier et al., (2020). refsplitr: Author name disambiguation, author georeferencing, and mapping of coauthorship networks with Web of Science data. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(45), 2028, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02028
@article{Fournier2020,
doi = {10.21105/joss.02028},
url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02028},
year = {2020}, publisher = {The Open Journal},
volume = {5},
number = {45},
pages = {2028},
author = {Auriel M.v. Fournier and Matthew E. Boone and Forrest R. Stevens and Emilio M. Bruna},
title = {refsplitr: Author name disambiguation, author georeferencing, and mapping of coauthorship networks with Web of Science data},
journal = {Journal of Open Source Software}
}
Note regarding package development history: The early development of refsplitr
- initially known as refnet
- was by Forrest Stevens and Emilio M. Bruna and was done on r-forge. In December 2017 Bruna moved it to Github and hired Porzana Solutions to finalize the package and prepare it for submission to CRAN. Please make all suggestions for changes via this Github repository - do not make a repo mirror of the R-forge version.