mergeDbSources {bibliometrix}

Merge bibliographic data frames from supported bibliogtraphic DBs

Description

Merge bibliographic data frames from different databases (WoS,SCOPUS, Lens, Openalex, etc-) into a single one.

Usage

mergeDbSources(..., remove.duplicated = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

...

are the bibliographic data frames to merge.

remove.duplicated

is logical. If TRUE duplicated documents will be deleted from the bibliographic collection.

verbose

is logical. If TRUE, information on duplicate documents is printed on the screen.

Details

bibliographic data frames are obtained by the converting function convert2df. The function merges data frames identifying common tag fields and duplicated records.

Value

the value returned from mergeDbSources is a bibliographic data frame.

See Also

convert2df to import and convert an ISI or SCOPUS Export file in a bibliographic data frame.

biblioAnalysis function for bibliometric analysis.

summary to obtain a summary of the results.

plot to draw some useful plots of the results.

Examples

data(isiCollection, package = "bibliometrixData")

data(scopusCollection, package = "bibliometrixData")

M <- mergeDbSources(isiCollection, scopusCollection, remove.duplicated=TRUE)

dim(M)