Web Scraping and Bibliometric Analysis of MDPI Journals

Documentation for package ‘MDPIexploreR’ version 0.2.0

agriculture	Article data extracted from MDPI journal Agriculture
article_find	This function retrieves the URLs for all published articles from a specified journal. Users can provide the journal's code 'see MDPI_journals.rda', and the function will return the URLs of all articles available within the journal.
article_info	This function extracts key editorial information from one or more paper URLs. Specifically, it retrieves the submission, revision, and acceptance dates, as well as the article type. The function also calculates the turnaround time (the duration from submission to acceptance) and identifies whether the paper is part of a special issue.
clean_names	This function will standardize the editors and authors names to facilitate matching them to one another.
guest_editor_info	Obtain information from guest edited special issues
horticulturae	Article data extracted from MDPI journal Horticulturae
MDPI_journals	MDPI journal names and code
plot_articles	Plots informaton obtained from article_info
selfcite_check	Calculates number of authors selfcitations against all references
special_issue_find	Retrieves all special issues of a specified journal with URLs. Filters results by issue status (open, closed, or all) and optional year range.