Search Author Content on SCOPUS

Source: R/author_df.R

Searches SCOPUS to get information about documents on an author. Note, author_list returns a list of the entries from author_search, but allows you to put in a name.

author_df(au_id = NULL, last_name = NULL, first_name = NULL,
  api_key = NULL, verbose = TRUE, all_author_info = FALSE,
  http = "https://api.elsevier.com/content/search/scopus",
  view = "COMPLETE", count = 25, general = TRUE, scrub = FALSE,
  headers = NULL, ...)

author_df_orig(..., general = FALSE)

author_list(au_id = NULL, last_name = NULL, first_name = NULL,
  api_key = NULL, verbose = TRUE,
  http = "https://api.elsevier.com/content/search/scopus",
  view = "COMPLETE", count = 25, headers = NULL, ...)

author_data(..., verbose = TRUE, all_author_info = FALSE,
  general = TRUE, scrub = FALSE)

Arguments

au_id

Author ID number. Overrides any first/last name argument
last_name

last name of author
first_name

first name of author
api_key

Elsevier API key
verbose

Print diagnostic messages
all_author_info

Should all author info be recorded instead of that just to the author given
http

Address for scopus api
view

type of view to give, see https://api.elsevier.com/documentation/ScopusSearchAPI.wadl
count

number of records to retrieve (below 25, see https://dev.elsevier.com/api_key_settings.html)
general

Should gen_entries_to_df instead of the way before version 0.5.10.9001
scrub

Should `scrub_identifier` be run on the identifier?
headers

Headers passed to add_headers, passed to GET
...

Arguments to be passed to author_search

Value

List of entries from SCOPUS

Note

The author_data command will return the list of all entries as well as the data.frame.

See also

get_author_info

Examples

if (have_api_key()) {
res = author_df(last_name = "Muschelli", first_name = "John",
verbose = FALSE)
}