Search Author Content on SCOPUS

Source: R/author_search.R

Searches SCOPUS to get information about documents on an author.

author_search(au_id, api_key = NULL,
  http = "https://api.elsevier.com/content/search/author", count = 200,
  start = 0, verbose = TRUE, facets = "subjarea(sort=fd,count=350)",
  searcher = "AU-ID", max_count = Inf, view = c("STANDARD",
  "COMPLETE"), add_query = NULL, headers = NULL, wait_time = 0, ...)

Arguments

au_id

Author ID number
api_key

API Key for Elsevier
http

Address for scopus api
count

number of records to retrieve (below 200, see https://dev.elsevier.com/api_key_settings.html)
start

where should the records start gathering
verbose

Print diagnostic messages
facets

Facets sent in query. See https://dev.elsevier.com/api_docs.html
searcher

Identifier for author ID. Do not change unless you know exactly what the API calls for.
max_count

Maximum count of records to be returned.
view

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

Things to add to the query parameter for the request
headers

additional headers to be added to add_headers
wait_time

The time in seconds to wait across consecutive requests of a single search (when records > 25)
...

Arguments to be passed to the query list for GET

Value

List of entries from SCOPUS

See also

get_author_info

Examples

if (FALSE) {
author_search(au_id = "Smith", searcher = "affil(princeton) and authlast")
berk = author_search(au_id = "berkeley", searcher = "affil", count =100)
}