keywordAssoc function

ID and DE keyword associations

It associates authors' keywords to keywords plus.

keywordAssoc(M, sep = ";", n = 10, excludeKW = NA)

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 WoS file.
• sep: is the field separator character. This character separates keywords in each string of ID and DE columns of the bibliographic data frame. The default is sep = ";".
• n: is a integer. It indicates the number of authors' keywords to associate to each keyword plus. The default is n = 10.
• excludeKW: is character vector. It contains authors' keywords to exclude from the analysis.

Returns

an object of class "list".

Examples

data(scientometrics, package = "bibliometrixData")

KWlist <- keywordAssoc(scientometrics, sep = ";",n = 10, excludeKW = NA)

# list of first 10 Keywords plus
names(KWlist)

# list of first 10 authors' keywords associated to the first Keyword plus
KWlist[[1]][1:10]

See Also

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

biblioAnalysis function for bibliometric analysis.

summary to obtain a summary of the results.

plot to draw some useful plots of the results.