authorProdOverTime function

Top-Authors' Productivity over Time

It calculates and plots the author production (in terms of number of publications) over the time.

authorProdOverTime(M, k = 10, graph = TRUE)

Arguments

• M: is a bibliographic data frame obtained by convert2df function.
• k: is a integer. It is the number of top authors to analyze and plot. Default is k = 10.
• graph: is logical. If TRUE the function plots the author production over time graph. Default is graph = TRUE.

Returns

The function authorProdOverTime returns a list containing two objects:

dfAU		is a data frame
dfpapersAU		is a data frame
graph		a ggplot object

Examples

data(scientometrics, package = "bibliometrixData")
res <- authorProdOverTime(scientometrics, k=10)
print(res$dfAU)
plot(res$graph)

See Also

biblioAnalysis function for bibliometric analysis

summary method for class 'bibliometrix'