fieldByYear function

Field Tag distribution by Year

Field Tag distribution by Year

It calculates the median year for each item of a field tag.

fieldByYear( M, field = "ID", timespan = NULL, min.freq = 2, n.items = 5, labelsize = NULL, remove.terms = NULL, synonyms = NULL, dynamic.plot = FALSE, graph = TRUE )

Arguments

  • M: is a bibliographic data frame obtained by convert2df function.
  • field: is a character object. It indicates one of the field tags of the standard ISI WoS Field Tag codify.
  • timespan: is a vector with the min and max year. If it is = NULL, the analysis is performed on the entire period. Default is timespan = NULL.
  • min.freq: is an integer. It indicates the min frequency of the items to include in the analysis
  • n.items: is an integer. I indicates the maximum number of items per year to include in the plot.
  • labelsize: is deprecated argument. It will be removed in the next update.
  • remove.terms: is a character vector. It contains a list of additional terms to delete from the documents before term extraction. The default is remove.terms = NULL.
  • synonyms: is a character vector. Each element contains a list of synonyms, separated by ";", that will be merged into a single term (the first word contained in the vector element). The default is synonyms = NULL.
  • dynamic.plot: is a logical. If TRUE plot aesthetics are optimized for plotly package.
  • graph: is logical. If TRUE the function plots Filed Tag distribution by Year graph. Default is graph = TRUE.

Returns

The function fieldByYear returns a list containing threeobjects:

dfis a data frame
df_graphis a data frame with data used to build the graph
grapha ggplot object

Examples

data(management, package = "bibliometrixData") timespan=c(2005,2015) res <- fieldByYear(management, field = "ID", timespan = timespan, min.freq = 5, n.items = 5, graph = TRUE)

See Also

biblioAnalysis function for bibliometric analysis

summary method for class 'bibliometrix'