mergeDbSources function

Merge bibliographic data frames from supported bibliogtraphic DBs

Merge bibliographic data frames from different databases (WoS,SCOPUS, Lens, Openalex, etc-) into a single one.

mergeDbSources(..., remove.duplicated = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

• ...: are the bibliographic data frames to merge.
• remove.duplicated: is logical. If TRUE duplicated documents will be deleted from the bibliographic collection.
• verbose: is logical. If TRUE, information on duplicate documents is printed on the screen.

Returns

the value returned from mergeDbSources is a bibliographic data frame.

Details

bibliographic data frames are obtained by the converting function convert2df. The function merges data frames identifying common tag fields and duplicated records.

Examples

data(isiCollection, package = "bibliometrixData")

data(scopusCollection, package = "bibliometrixData")

M <- mergeDbSources(isiCollection, scopusCollection, remove.duplicated=TRUE)

dim(M)

See Also

convert2df to import and convert an ISI 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.