Web Scraping and Bibliometric Analysis of MDPI Journals
This function retrieves the URLs for all published articles from a spe...
This function extracts key editorial information from one or more pape...
This function will standardize the editors and authors names to facili...
Obtain information from guest edited special issues
MDPI journal names and code
Plots information obtained from article_info(). For analysis purposes,...
Calculates number of authors selfcitations against all references
Retrieves all special issues of a specified journal with URLs. Filters...
Obtain information from special issues
Retrieves all topics of a specified journal with URLs. Filters results...
Obtain information from guest edited topics
Provides 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.