bibliometrix (version 1.8)

convert2df: Convert an ISI or SCOPUS Export file into a data frame

Description

It converts a SCOPUS and Thomson Reuters' ISI Web of Knowledge export file and create a data frame from it, with cases corresponding to articles and variables to Field Tag in the original file.

Usage

convert2df(file, dbsource = "isi", format = "bibtex")

Arguments

file

is a character array containing data read from an ISI WoK Export file (in plain text or bibtex format) or SCOPUS Export file (exclusively in bibtex format).

dbsource

is a character indicating the bibliographic database. dbsource can be "isi" or "scopus". Default is dbsource = "isi".

format

is a character indicating the format of the SCOPUS and Thomson Reuters' ISI Web of Knowledge export file. format can be "bibtex" or "plaintext". Default is format = "bibtex".

Value

a data frame with cases corresponding to articles and variables to Field Tag in the original export file.

data frame columns are named using the standard ISI WoS Field Tag codify. The main field tags are:

AU		Authors
TI		Document Title
SO		Publication Name (or Source)
JI		ISO Source Abbreviation
DT		Document Type
DE		Authors' Keywords
ID		Keywords associated by SCOPUS or ISI database
AB		Abstract
C1		Author Address
RP		Reprint Address
CR		Cited References
TC		Times Cited
PY		Year
SC		Subject Category
UT		Unique Article Identifier
DB		Database

for a complete list of field tags see: ISI WoS Field Tags

Details

Actually the function allows to convert both SCOPUS/ISI files in bibtext format and just ISI files in plain text format.

See Also

scopus2df for converting SCOPUS Export file (in bibtex format)

isibib2df for converting ISI Export file (in bibtex format)

isi2df for converting ISI Export file (in plain text format)

Other converting functions: isi2df, isibib2df, scopus2df

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# An ISI or SCOPUS Export file can be read using \code{\link{readLines}} function:

# largechar <- readLines('filename.txt')

# filename.txt is an ISI or SCOPUS Export file in plain text or bibtex format.
# The file have to be saved without Byte order mark (U+FEFF) at the beginning
# and EoF code at the end of file.
# The original file (exported by ISI or SCOPUS search web site) can be modified
# using an advanced text editor like Notepad++ or Emacs.

#  biblio <- readLines('http://www.bibliometrix.org/datasets/bibliometrics_articles.txt')

data(biblio)

biblio_df_df <- convert2df(file = biblio, dbsource = "isi", format = "bibtex")

# }