lbsGetCitations: Fetch authors' citation sequences

Description

Creates ordered citation sequences of authors in a Local Bibliometric Storage.

Usage

lbsGetCitations(conn, documentTypes = NULL, surveyDescription = NULL,
  idAuthors = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

conn

a connection object as produced by lbsConnect.

documentTypes

character vector or NULL; specifies document types to restrict to; a combination of Article, Article in Press, Book, Conference Paper, Editorial, Erratum, Letter, Note, Report, Review, Short Survey. NULL means no restriction.

surveyDescription

single character string or NULL; survey to restrict to or NULL for no restriction.

idAuthors

numeric vector of authors' identifiers for which the sequences are to be created or NULL for all authors in the database.

verbose

logical; TRUE to inform about the progress of the process.

Value

A list of non-increasingly ordered numeric vectors is returned. Each element of the list corresponds to a citation sequence of some author. List names attribute are set to authors' names. Moreover, each vector has a set IdAuthor attribute, which uniquely identifies the corresponding record in the table Biblio_Authors. Citation counts come together with IdDocuments (vector elements are named).

The list of citation sequences may then be used to calculate authors' impact using lbsAssess (see Examples below).

Details

A citation sequence is a numeric vector consisting of citation counts of all the documents mapped to selected authors. However, the function may take into account only the documents from a given Survey (using surveyDescription parameter) or of chosen types (documentTypes).

Examples

Run this code

# NOT RUN {
conn <- lbsConnect("Bibliometrics.db");
## ...
citseq <- lbsGetCitations(conn,
	surveyDescription="Scientometrics", documentTypes="Article",
	idAuthors=c(39264,39265,39266));
print(citseq);
## $`Liu X.`                                # Author name
## 40116 34128 39122 29672 32343 32775      # IdDocument
##    11     4     1     0     0     0      # Citation count
## attr(,"IdAuthor")
## [1] 39264                                # IdAuthor
##
## $`Xu Y.`
## 38680 38605 40035 40030 40124 39829 39745 29672
##    30    14     8     6     6     5     3     0
## attr(,"IdAuthor")
## [1] 39265
##
## $`Wang Y.`
## 29992 29672 29777 32906 33858 33864 34704
##     1     0     0     0     0     0     0
## attr(,"IdAuthor")
## [1] 39266
print(lbsAssess(citseq,
   f=list(length, sum, index.h, index.g, function(x) index.rp(x,1),
       function(x) sqrt(prod(index.lp(x,1))),
       function(x) sqrt(prod(index.lp(x,Inf)))),
   captions=c("length", "sum", "index.h", "index.g", "index.w",
   "index.lp1", "index.lpInf")));
##      Name length sum index.h index.g index.w index.lp1 index.lpInf
## 3   Xu Y.      8  72       5       8       7  8.573214    5.477226
## 2 Wang Y.      7   1       1       1       1  1.000000    1.000000
## 1  Liu X.      6  16       2       4       3  4.157609    3.316625
## ...
dbDisconnect(conn);
# }