Calculates number of authors selfcitations against all references — selfcite_check • MDPIexploreR

Calculates number of authors selfcitations against all references

Usage

selfcite_check(article_url, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

article_url: A valid MDPI article url
verbose: Logical. If TRUE, informative messages will be printed during the function execution. Defaults to TRUE.

Value

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

selfcite: The number of articles in references authored by any of the main article authors
total_ref: Total number of references in the article

Examples

paper_url<-"https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13/19/2785"
sc<-selfcite_check(paper_url)