Gets the network of coauthors of a scholar
get_coauthors(id, n_coauthors = 5, n_deep = 1)
A data frame with two columns showing all authors and coauthors.
a character string specifying the Google Scholar ID. If multiple ids are specified, only the first value is used and a warning is generated.
Number of coauthors to explore. This number should usually be between 1 and 10 as choosing many coauthors can make the network graph too messy.
The number of degrees that you want to go down the network. When n_deep
is equal to 1
then grab_coauthor
will only grab the coauthors of Joe and Mary, so Joe -- > Mary --> All coauthors. This can get
out of control very quickly if n_deep
is set to 2
or above. The preferred number is 1
, the default.
Considering that scraping each publication for all coauthors is error prone, get_coauthors
grabs only the coauthors listed on the google scholar profile (on the bottom right of the profile),
not from all publications.
plot_coauthors
if (FALSE) {
library(scholar)
coauthor_network <- get_coauthors('amYIKXQAAAAJ&hl')
plot_coauthors(coauthor_network)
}
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