author_retrieval function

SCOPUS Author Retrieval

This function wraps generic_elsevier_api

to give a retrieval of an author from the Elsevier Author Retrieval API

author_retrieval_id(id, identifier = c("author_id", "eid"),
  http_end = NULL, ...)

multi_author_retrieval(id, identifier = c("author_id", "eid"),
  http_end = NULL, ...)

author_retrieval(au_id = NULL, last_name = NULL, first_name = NULL,
  view = c("LIGHT", "STANDARD", "ENHANCED", "METRICS", "ENTITLED"),
  self_cite = c("include", "exclude"), http_end = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE, api_key = NULL, headers = NULL, ...)

Arguments

• id: Identifier for author
• identifier: Type of identifier to use
• http_end: any additional end to http statement. See generic_elsevier_api
• ...: Arguments to be passed to generic_elsevier_api
• au_id: Author ID number. Overrides any first/last name argument
• last_name: last name of author
• first_name: first name of author
• view: Which view to see. See https://api.elsevier.com/documentation/AuthorRetrievalAPI.wadl
• self_cite: Should self-citations be included?
• verbose: Print diagnostic messages
• api_key: Elsevier API key
• headers: Headers passed to add_headers, passed to GET

Returns

List of elements, similar to generic_elsevier_api

Note

See https://api.elsevier.com/documentation/AuthorRetrievalAPI.wadl

for documentation

Examples

api_key = get_api_key(NULL, error = FALSE)
if (!is.null(api_key)){
   x = author_retrieval(au_id = "40462056100",
   verbose = FALSE)
   x = author_retrieval_id("40462056100", identifier = "author_id",
   verbose = FALSE)
} else {
 x = author_retrieval_id(
 "40462056100",
 identifier = "author_id",
   api_key_error = FALSE, verbose = FALSE)
 x = author_retrieval(
 au_id = "40462056100",
   api_key_error = FALSE, verbose = FALSE)
}

See Also

generic_elsevier_api