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)