scopus_search {rscopus}

SCOPUS Search

Description

This function wraps generic_elsevier_api to give a scopus search from the Elsevier Scopus Search API

Searches SCOPUS to get information about documents on an author.

Usage

scopus_search(query, api_key = NULL, count = 200,
  view = c("STANDARD", "COMPLETE"), start = 0, verbose = TRUE,
  max_count = 20000,
  http = "https://api.elsevier.com/content/search/scopus",
  headers = NULL, wait_time = 0, ...)

sciencedirect_search(count = 100, ...)

scidir_search(count = 100, ...)

Arguments

query

Query string to search on SCOPUS

api_key

API Key for Elsevier

count

number of records to retrieve (below 200 for STANDARD, below 25 for COMPLETE views, see https://dev.elsevier.com/api_key_settings.html).

view

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

start

where should the records start gathering

verbose

Print diagnostic messages

max_count

Maximum count of records to be returned.

http

Address for scopus API

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

Examples

if (have_api_key()) {
res = scopus_search(query = "all(gene)", max_count = 20,
count = 10)
df = gen_entries_to_df(res$entries)
head(df$df)
sci_res = sciencedirect_search(query = "heart+attack AND text(liver)",
max_count = 30, count = 25)
sci_df = gen_entries_to_df(sci_res$entries)
Sys.sleep(2)
nt = sciencedirect_search(query = "title(neurotoxin)", max_count = 20,
count = 10, wait_time = 1)
nt_df = gen_entries_to_df(nt$entries)
nt_df = nt_df$df
}