Help: Need to get details of all the dois citing a particular DOI
shaniAmare opened this issue · 10 comments
HI to the developers rcrossref (@sckott, @ropenscibot),
Thank you for this wonderful package!
I was wondering whether there has been any progress with identifying the other publication details citing a DOI? I see some information here saying that it is not implemented in rcrossref : https://ciakovx.github.io/rcrossref.html.
If this is the case, can an expert guide me on an alternative way to do it through R please? Your ideas are really appreciated!
Thanks in advance
Shani.
thanks for opening an issue @shaniAmare
please be more specific. what does this mean: "identifying the other publication details citing a DOI" - what are "other publication details"
Thanks for the reply @sckott ... and sorry for the confusion!
By other publication details, I mean particularly the dois of the articles that cite a particular article - similar to the results we see when we click on "Cited by" in Google Scholar
.
Is there a way to get this within R somehow? I think if it is achievable, rcrossref
might be the only package that can make it happen. Another R package dealing with google scholar, (i.e. scholar
package), could only look at scholar profiles and that scholars' citation history.
You can try cr_citation_count
function to get count of citations, but you can't get the citations themselves from Crossref.
As mentioned in that tutorial you linked to, you can try the https://github.com/ropenscilabs/citecorp citecorp pkg, a client for the open citation corpus.
Thanks! I will check citecorp
out! It would have been nice if there was a function similar to cr_citation_count
to get the dois of those counts (i.e. cr_citation_data
) through rcrossref
. But looking at your code, I understand that, it could be arduous to obtain such a function...
Thanks for all the help, Scott!
Cheers,
Shani.
it would have been nice if there was a function similar to cr_citation_count to get the dois of those counts
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE. The data is not made available
Noted- thanks!
Could we revisit this feature request? I noticed the API in crossref for cited-by (https://www.crossref.org/documentation/cited-by/retrieve-citations/). Not sure whether it is possible to implement.
Hi @byzheng This service is only for Crossref members, which are publishers. The freely available REST API wrapped by this package lets you only retrieve references.
Thanks @sckott and @njahn82 for your comments. I find an alternative solutions for citations opencitations (https://opencitations.net/)