biblioAnalysis function

Bibliometric Analysis

It performs a bibliometric analysis of a dataset imported from SCOPUS and Clarivate Analytics Web of Science databases.

biblioAnalysis(M, sep = ";")

Arguments

• M: is a bibliographic data frame obtained by the converting function convert2df. It is a data matrix with cases corresponding to manuscripts and variables to Field Tag in the original SCOPUS and Clarivate Analytics Web of Science file.
• sep: is the field separator character. This character separates strings in each column of the data frame. The default is sep = ";".

Returns

biblioAnalysis returns an object of class "bibliometrix".

The functions summary and plot are used to obtain or print a summary and some useful plots of the results.

An object of class "bibliometrix" is a list containing the following components:

Articles		the total number of manuscripts
Authors		the authors' frequency distribution
AuthorsFrac		the authors' frequency distribution (fractionalized)
FirstAuthors		corresponding author of each manuscript
nAUperPaper		the number of authors per manuscript
Appearances		the number of author appearances
nAuthors		the number of authors
AuMultiAuthoredArt		the number of authors of multi-authored articles
MostCitedPapers		the list of manuscripts sorted by citations
Years		publication year of each manuscript
FirstAffiliation		the affiliation of the first author
Affiliations		the frequency distribution of affiliations (of all co-authors for each paper)
Aff_frac		the fractionalized frequency distribution of affiliations (of all co-authors for each paper)
CO		the affiliation country of the first author
Countries		the affiliation countries' frequency distribution
CountryCollaboration		Intra-country (SCP) and intercountry (MCP) collaboration indices
TotalCitation		the number of times each manuscript has been cited
TCperYear		the yearly average number of times each manuscript has been cited
Sources		the frequency distribution of sources (journals, books, etc.)
DE		the frequency distribution of authors' keywords
ID		the frequency distribution of keywords associated to the manuscript by SCOPUS and Clarivate Analytics Web of Science database

Examples

## Not run:

data(management, package = "bibliometrixData")

results <- biblioAnalysis(management)

summary(results, k = 10, pause = FALSE)
## End(Not run)

See Also

convert2df to import and convert an WoS or SCOPUS Export file in a bibliographic data frame.

summary to obtain a summary of the results.

plot to draw some useful plots of the results.