threeFieldsPlot function

Three Fields Plot

Visualize the main items of three fields (e.g. authors, keywords, journals), and how they are related through a Sankey diagram.

threeFieldsPlot(M, fields = c("DE", "AU", "SO"), n = c(20, 20, 20))

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.
• fields: is a character vector. It indicates the fields to analyze using the standard WoS field tags. Default is fields = c("AU","DE", "SO").
• n: is a integer vector. It indicates how many items to plot, for each of the three fields. Default is n = c(20, 20, 20)

Returns

a sankeyPlot

Examples

#data(scientometrics, package = "bibliometrixData")

#threeFieldsPlot(scientometrics, fields=c("DE","AU","CR"),n=c(20,20,20))