rcrossref introduction

Installation

Install stable version from CRAN

install.packages("rcrossref")

Or development version from GitHub

remotes::install_github("ropensci/rcrossref")

library("rcrossref")

Citation search

CrossRef’s DOI Content Negotiation service, where you can citations back in various formats, including apa

cr_cn(dois = "10.1371/journal.pone.0112608", format = "text", style = "apa")

There are a lot more styles. We include a dataset as a character vector within the package, accessible via the get_styles() function, e.g.,

get_styles()[1:5]

bibtex

cat(cr_cn(dois = "10.1126/science.169.3946.635", format = "bibtex"))

bibentry

cr_cn(dois = "10.6084/m9.figshare.97218", format = "bibentry")

Citation count

Citation count, using OpenURL

cr_citation_count(doi="10.1371/journal.pone.0042793")

Search Crossref metadata API

The following functions all use the CrossRef API.

cr_funders(query="NSF")

cr_agency(dois = '10.13039/100000001')

cr_works(filter=c(has_orcid=TRUE, from_pub_date='2004-04-04'), limit=1)

cr_journals(issn=c('1803-2427','2326-4225'))

cr_licenses(query = 'elsevier')

cr_prefixes(prefixes=c('10.1016','10.1371','10.1023','10.4176','10.1093'))

cr_members(query='ecology', limit = 5)

cr_r()

cr_r(2)