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Obtain information from guest edited special issues

guest_editor_info.Rd

#' Extracts data from special issues, including guest editors' paper counts excluding editorials, time between last submission and issue closure, and whether guest editors served as academic editors for any published papers.

Usage

guest_editor_info(journal_urls, sample_size, sleep = 2, show_progress = TRUE)

Arguments

journal_urls

A list of MDPI special issues URLs

sample_size

A number. How many special issues do you want to explore from the main vector. Leave blank for all

sleep

Number of seconds between scraping iterations. 2 sec. by default

show_progress

Logical. If TRUE, a progress bar is displayed during the function execution. Defaults to TRUE.

Value

A data frame (class: data.frame) with the following columns:

special_issue

The URL of the special issue from which the information is retrieved.

num_papers

Number of special issues contained in the special issue, not considering editorial type articles

flags

Number of articles in the special issue with guest editorial pressence

prop_flag

Proportion of articles in the special issue in which a guest editor is present

deadline

Time at which the special issue was or will be closed

latest_sub

Time at which last article present in the special issue was submitted

rt_sum_vector2

Numeric vector showing number of articles in which each individual guest editor is present

aca_flag

Number of articles in the special issue where the academic editor is a guest editor too

d_over_deadline

Day differential between special issue closure and latest article submission

Examples

# \donttest{
ge_issue<-"https://www.mdpi.com/journal/plants/special_issues/5F5L5569XN"
ge_info<-guest_editor_info(ge_issue)
#> 
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# }