Obtain information from guest edited topics — topic

#' Extracts data from topics, 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. Includes names of journals participating in topic

Usage

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

Arguments

journal_urls: A list of MDPI topics URLs
sample_size: A number. How many topics 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:

topic: The URL of the topics contained in the topic, not considering editorial type articles
flags: Number of articles in the topic with guest editorial pressence
prop_flag: Proportion of articles in the topic in which a guest editor is present
deadline: Time at which the topic was or will be closed
latest_sub: Time at which last article present in the topic 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 topic where the academic editor is a guest editor too
d_over_deadline: Day differential between topic closure and latest article submission
journals: List of journals participating in the topic

Examples

# \donttest{
ge_issue<-"https://www.mdpi.com/topics/mechanisms_resistance_plant_diseases_volume"
ge_info<-topic_info(ge_issue)
#> 
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# }