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MDPIexploreR

Welcome to the wonders of MDPIexploreR, an R package created to provide comprehensive tools to scrape and analyze data from the MDPI journals. It allows users to extract metrics such as submission-to-acceptance times, article types, and whether articles are part of special issues. The package can also visualize this information through plots. Additionally, MDPIexploreR offers tools to explore patterns of self-citations within articles and provides insights into guest-edited special issues.

Installation

You can install and load MDPIexploreR CRAN version with:

install.packages("MDPIexploreR")
library(MDPIexploreR)

or try the latest Github version with:

devtools::install_github("pgomba/MDPI_explorer")
library(MDPIexploreR)

Citation

If you use MDPIexploreR in a publication or report, please cite it. Find the correct citation here or running this code:

citation("MDPIexploreR")

Head to Introduction to MDPIexploreR to get a glimpse of the functionalities of MDPIexploreR:

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install.packages('MDPIexploreR')

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Version

0.3.0

License

CC BY 4.0

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Repository

https://github.com/pgomba/MDPI_exploreR

Maintainer

Pablo Gómez Barreiro

Last Published

March 19th, 2025

Functions in MDPIexploreR (0.3.0)

This function retrieves the URLs for all published articles from a specified journal. Users can provide the journal's code 'see MDPI_journals.rda', and the function will return the URLs of all articles available within the journal.

special_issue_find

Retrieves all special issues of a specified journal with URLs. Filters results by issue status (open, closed, or all) and optional year range.

Article data extracted from MDPI journal Agriculture

Calculates number of authors selfcitations against all references

This function extracts key editorial information from one or more paper URLs. Specifically, it retrieves the submission, revision, and acceptance dates, as well as the article type. The function also calculates the turnaround time (the duration from submission to acceptance) and identifies whether the paper is part of a special issue.

This function will standardize the editors and authors names to facilitate matching them to one another.

MDPI journal names and code

guest_editor_info

Obtain information from guest edited special issues

Plots information obtained from article_info(). For analysis purposes, Editorial and Correction type articles are ignored.

Obtain information from guest edited topics

Article data extracted from MDPI journal Horticulturae

Retrieves all topics of a specified journal with URLs. Filters results by issue status (open, closed, or all) and optional year range.

special_issue_info

Obtain information from special issues