localCitations function

Author local citations

It calculates local citations (LCS) of authors and documents of a bibliographic collection.

localCitations(M, fast.search = FALSE, sep = ";", verbose = FALSE)

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.
• fast.search: is logical. If true, the function calculates local citations only for 25 percent top cited documents.
• sep: is the field separator character. This character separates citations in each string of CR column of the bibliographic data frame. The default is sep = ";".
• verbose: is a logical. If TRUE, results are printed on screen.

Returns

an object of class "list" containing author local citations and document local citations.

Details

Local citations measure how many times an author (or a document) included in this collection have been cited by the documents also included in the collection.

Examples

data(scientometrics, package = "bibliometrixData")

CR <- localCitations(scientometrics, sep = ";")

CR$Authors[1:10,]
CR$Papers[1:10,]

See Also

citations function for citation frequency distribution.

biblioAnalysis function for bibliometric analysis.

summary to obtain a summary of the results.

plot to draw some useful plots of the results.