Convert OpenAlex collection of authors' records from list format to data frame

It converts bibliographic collection of authors' records gathered from OpenAlex database https://openalex.org/ into data frame. The function converts a list of authors' records obtained using oa_request into a data frame/tibble.

Usage

authors2df(data, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

data: List. Output of oa_request.
verbose: Logical. If TRUE, print information on querying process. Default to verbose = FALSE.

Value

a data.frame.

For more extensive information about OpenAlex API, please visit: <https://docs.openalex.org>

Examples

if (FALSE) {

# Query to search information about all authors affiliated to the University of Naples Federico II
# which have authored at least 100 publications:

# University of Naples Federico II is associated to the OpenAlex id I71267560.


query_author <- oa_query(
  identifier = NULL,
  entity = "authors",
  last_known_institution.id = "I71267560",
  works_count = ">99"
)

res <- oa_request(
  query_url = query_author,
  count_only = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE
)

df <- oa2df(res, entity = "authors")

df
}

# @export