Read Scopus CSV export — read

Parses a CSV file exported from Scopus into a standardized bibliometric data frame with list-columns for multi-valued fields.

Usage

read_scopus(file, encoding = "UTF-8")

Arguments

file: Path to a Scopus CSV export file.
encoding: Character. File encoding. Default "UTF-8".

Value

A data frame in the standard bibnets format: id, title, year, journal, doi, cited_by_count, abstract, type, plus list-columns authors, references, and keywords. Scopus-specific extras: index_keywords (list-column), affiliations (character), language (character).

Examples

f <- system.file("extdata", "scopus_sample.csv", package = "bibnets")
data <- read_scopus(f)
head(data[, c("id", "title", "year", "journal")])
#>           id                                       title year
#> 1 2-s2.0-001 Bibliometric networks in education research 2022
#> 2 2-s2.0-002  Co-citation analysis of learning analytics 2021
#>                     journal
#> 1 Journal of Scientometrics
#> 2        Learning Analytics