SCOPUS Author Retrieval

Source: R/author_retrieval.R

This function wraps generic_elsevier_api to give a retrieval of an author from the Elsevier Author Retrieval API

author_retrieval_id(id, identifier = c("author_id", "eid"),
  http_end = NULL, ...)

multi_author_retrieval(id, identifier = c("author_id", "eid"),
  http_end = NULL, ...)

author_retrieval(au_id = NULL, last_name = NULL, first_name = NULL,
  view = c("LIGHT", "STANDARD", "ENHANCED", "METRICS", "ENTITLED"),
  self_cite = c("include", "exclude"), http_end = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE, api_key = NULL, headers = NULL, ...)

Arguments

id

Identifier for author
identifier

Type of identifier to use
http_end

any additional end to http statement. See generic_elsevier_api
...

Arguments to be passed to generic_elsevier_api
au_id

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

last name of author
first_name

first name of author
view

Which view to see. See https://api.elsevier.com/documentation/AuthorRetrievalAPI.wadl
self_cite

Should self-citations be included?
verbose

Print diagnostic messages
api_key

Elsevier API key
headers

Headers passed to add_headers, passed to GET

Value

List of elements, similar to generic_elsevier_api

Note

See https://api.elsevier.com/documentation/AuthorRetrievalAPI.wadl for documentation

See also

generic_elsevier_api

Examples

api_key = get_api_key(NULL, error = FALSE)
if (!is.null(api_key)){
   x = author_retrieval(au_id = "40462056100",
   verbose = FALSE)
   x = author_retrieval_id("40462056100", identifier = "author_id",
   verbose = FALSE)
} else {
 x = author_retrieval_id(
 "40462056100",
 identifier = "author_id",
   api_key_error = FALSE, verbose = FALSE)
 x = author_retrieval(
 au_id = "40462056100",
   api_key_error = FALSE, verbose = FALSE)
}