get_coauthors {scholar}

Gets the network of coauthors of a scholar

Description

Gets the network of coauthors of a scholar

Usage

get_coauthors(id, n_coauthors = 5, n_deep = 1)

Arguments

id

a character string specifying the Google Scholar ID. If multiple ids are specified, only the first value is used and a warning is generated.

n_coauthors

Number of coauthors to explore. This number should usually be between 1 and 10 as choosing many coauthors can make the network graph too messy.

n_deep

The number of degrees that you want to go down the network. When n_deep is equal to 1 then grab_coauthor will only grab the coauthors of Joe and Mary, so Joe – > Mary –> All coauthors. This can get out of control very quickly if n_deep is set to 2 or above. The preferred number is 1, the default.

Details

Considering that scraping each publication for all coauthors is error prone, get_coauthors grabs only the coauthors listed on the google scholar profile (on the bottom right of the profile), not from all publications.

Value

A data frame with two columns showing all authors and coauthors.

See Also

plot_coauthors

Examples

## Not run: 

library(scholar)
coauthor_network <- get_coauthors('amYIKXQAAAAJ&hl')
plot_coauthors(coauthor_network)

## End(Not run)