bibliometrix (version 1.8)

summary.bibliometrix: Summarizing bibliometric analysis results

Description

summary method for class 'bibliometrix'

Usage

# S3 method for bibliometrix
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

object

is the object for which a summary is desired.

...

can accept two arguments: k integer, used for table formatting (number of rows). Default value is 10. pause locical, used to allow pause in screen scrolling of results. Default value is pause = TRUE.

Value

The function summary computes and returns a list of summary statistics of the object of class bibliometrics.

the list contains the following objects:

MainInformation		Main Information about Data
AnnualProduction		Annual Scientific Production
AnnualGrowthRate		Annual Percentage Growth Rate
MostProdAuthors		Most Productive Authors
MostCitedPapers		Top manuscripts per number of citations
MostProdCountries		Most Productive Countries
TCperCountries		Total Citation per Countries
MostRelSources		Most Relevant Sources

See Also

biblioAnalysis function for bibliometric analysis

plot to draw some useful plots of the results.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(scientometrics)

results <- biblioAnalysis(scientometrics)

summary(results)

# }