openalexR 2.0.0

openalexR 2.0.0

• Breaking changes in column names in the output of oa_fetch:

  • Works:
    • so is now source_display_name
    • so_id is now source_id
    • host_organization now contains the id of the host organization
    • host_organization_name now contains the name of the host organization
    • ab is now abstract
    • url is now landing_page_url
    • author is now authorships
    • the nested columns under authors no longer have the au prefix
    • New columns: fwci, referenced_works_count, keywords
  • Authors:
    • affiliation* is removed
    • New columns: last_known_institutions, 2yr_mean_citedness, h_index, i10_index

• Removed concepts as an entity

• Added keywords as an entity

• Added get_coverage() to track the oa2df-mapped columns of OpenAlex fields

• Deprecated oa2bibliometrix(). Use bibliometrix::convert2df() (from the bibliometrix R package) instead.

openalexR 1.4.0

• “topics” are now a valid entity in oa_fetch
• The column “topics” replaces concepts in most entities’ returned dataframes
• For Works, “topics” and “concepts” are now returned as separate columns

openalexR 1.3.1

• solved bug in au_affiliation_raw in PR#241

openalexR 1.3.0

• Breaking change: two arguments in oa_snowball are renamed: citing_filter is now citing_params, and cited_by_filter is now cited_by_params.
• Introduced oa_generate: A generator function to make request to OpenAlex API and returns one record at a time.
• Fixed queries with group_by.
• Improved paging control: the user can now specify the pages they want in oa_fetch or oa_request.
• Improve oa_snowball performance.
• Allowed the use of options$sample with search.
• “venues”” is no longer a valid value for entity. Use “sources” instead.

openalexR 1.2.2

• solved issue with CRAN test

openalexR 1.2.1

• many improvements in bibliometrix support
• solved issue with CRAN test

openalexR 1.2.0

• many improvements in oa_snowball
• added new openalex entities
• solved CRAN issue about packageVersion()

openalexR 1.1.0

• Basic paging is applied when using options$sample
• Bug fixes for rbind in oa2df

openalexR 1.0.2.9

• Breaking change: Reorder of the first two arguments in oa_fetch: entity now comes before idenfitifier. This should not affect your workflow too much unless you have been getting article information from OpenAlex IDs.
• new arguments to oa_fetch: sample and seed allows the user to download a random subset of the entities instead of the entire set.
• oa_ngrams gets you N-grams of works
• abstract now defaults to TRUE to avoid issues.
• New argument to oa_fetch: api_key
• Arguments sample, seed, sort, and select are now grouped into options.
• Bug fixes
• Improved documentation: group functions in Reference, details on search, etc.

openalexR 1.0.1

• Improve snowball #9.
• Batch queries when a filter has more than 50 values #18.
• Bug fixes.
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

openalexR 1.0.0

• Breaking change: now uses a more canonical way to filter #7.
• In oa_fetch, abstract now defaults to FALSE to save compute/query time/space. You will need to set abstract = TRUE to retrieve abstracts for the articles.
• Added website, hex.
• Added tests.
• Added R CMD CHECK as a GH Action
• Bug fixes.
• Added vignettes.

openalexR 0.0.2

• Some bug fixes

openalexR 0.0.1

• First CRAN release

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