margaret: Extracts data from Minciencias web pages

Overview

This package extracts data from Minciencias web pages about research groups and researchers, merge information with quality of articles from Scimago, Publindex and Google scholar. And export the data in a xlsx file.

Installation

From CRAN

install.packages("margaret")

From GitHub

install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github('coreofscience/margaret')

Load margaret

library(margaret)

Examples

The dataframe with the link of the research groups to search must have the following structure.

The dataframe can have more than one group.

example DataFrame

grupo	url
'SISCO'	'https://scienti.minciencias.gov.co/gruplac/jsp/visualiza/visualizagr.jsp?nro=00000000008639'

Note: Column titles must have the same name as the example, even in lowercase

library(margaret)

# Load data in a dataframe of r
groups <- read.csv(".../groups_information.csv", header=T, sep=",")

margaret_data <- getting_data(groups)

#or just
margaret::getting_data(groups)

Packages

For installing this package also installs a selection of other packages that you’re likely to use frequently, but probably not in every analysis.

rvest, For make it easy to download, then manipulate, HTML and XML.

scholar, For extract citation data from Google Scholar.

stringi, For processing tools for pattern.

tidyverse, for load core packages from tidyverse.

writexl, For Zero-dependency data frame to xlsx export.