bibliometrix (version 0.3)

biblioAnalysis: Bibliometric Analysis

Description

It performs a bibliometric analysis of a dataset imported from SCOPUS and Thomson Reuters' ISI Web of Knowledge databases.

Usage

biblioAnalysis(M, sep = ";")

Arguments

M

is a bibliographic data frame obtained by the converting function convert2df. It is a data matrix with cases corresponding to manuscripts and variables to Field Tag in the original SCOPUS and Thomson Re

sep

is the field separator character. This character separates strings in each column of the data frame. The default is sep = ";".

Value

• biblioAnalysis returns an object of class "bibliometrix". The functions summary and plot are used to obtain or print a summary and some useful plots of the results. An object of class "bibliometrix" is a list containing the following components: lll{ Articles the total number of manuscripts Authors the authors' frequency distribution AuthorsFrac the authors' frequency distribution (fractionalized) FirstAuthors first author of each manuscript nAUperPaper the number of authors per manuscript Apparences the number of author apparences nAuthors the number of authors AuMultiAuthoredArt the number of authors of multi authored articles Years pubblication year of each manuscript FirstAffiliation the affiliation of the first author Affiliations the frequency distribution of affiliations (of all co-authors for each paper) Aff_frac the fractionalized frequency distribution of affiliations (of all co-authors for each paper) CO the affiliation country of first author Countries the affiliation countries' frequency distribution TotalCitation the number of times each manuscript has been cited TCperYear the yearly average number of times each manuscript has been cited Sources the frequency distribution of sources (journals, books, etc.) DE the frequency distribution of authors' keywords ID the frequency distribution of keywords associated to the manuscript bySCOPUS and Thomson Reuters' ISI Web of Knowledge database}

See Also

convert2df to import and convert an ISI or SCOPUS Export file in a bibliographic data frame. summary to obtain a summary of the results. plot to draw some useful plots of the results.

Examples

data(scientometrics)

results <- biblioAnalysis(scientometrics)

summary(results, k = 10, pause = FALSE)