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lens2r

Project Status: WIP – Initial development is in progress, but there has not yet been a stable, usable release suitable for the public.

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The goal of lens2r is to get Lens.org scholar data into R environment. You need Lens.org scholar API token to access data, you can get one here.

Scholarly Search and Analysis
Lens serves over 200 million scholarly records, compiled and harmonised from Microsoft Academic, PubMed and Crossref, enhanced with UnPaywall open access information, CORE full text and links to ORCID. The full scholarly citation graph is provided for the first time as an open public resource.

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Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("sbalci/lens2r")

Examples

library(lens2r)
#> Loading required package: httr
#> Loading required package: jsonlite
#> Loading required package: magrittr

request <- '{
    "query": {
        "match_phrase": {
            "author.affiliation.name": "Harvard University"
        }
    },
    "size": 1,
    "sort": [{
        "year_published": "desc"
    }]
}'
data <- lens2r::get_scholarly_data(query = request)

output_content <- httr::content(data, "text")

output_flatten <- jsonlite::fromJSON(output_content, flatten = TRUE)

output_flatten_data <- output_flatten$data

output_flatten_data
#>               lens_id                          created publication_type
#> 1 040-450-672-971-619 2019-08-12T03:30:43.659000+00:00  journal article
#>                                                                          authors
#> 1 NA, Mark, Tushnet, M, magid, 1845306793, Harvard University, grid.38142.3c, US
#>                                                                                                title
#> 1 Institutions protecting constitutional democracy: Some conceptual and methodological preliminaries
#>   volume issue languages          references
#> 1     70     2        en 199-199-909-278-791
#>                                   fields_of_study
#> 1 Liberal democracy, Sociology, Law, Constitution
#>                                                                                                      source_urls
#> 1 html, html, https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/utlj.2019-05-27, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/731612
#>                                                                                                                                                                                                   abstract
#> 1 Chapter 9 of the South African Constitution refers to ‘institutions protecting constitutional democracy’ (IPDs). Contemporary constitution designers have written into new constitutions numerous suc...
#>   year_published references_count
#> 1           2020                1
#>                                      external_ids start_page end_page
#> 1 magid, doi, 2964660712, 10.3138/utlj.2019-05-27         95      106
#>   author_count            date_published                      source.title
#> 1            1 2020-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 University of Toronto Law Journal
#>   source.type            source.publisher        source.issn source.country
#> 1     Journal University of Toronto Press 00420220, 17101174         Canada
#>   source.asjc_codes                 source.asjc_subjects
#> 1        3308, 3312 Law, Sociology and Political Science

output_flatten <- as.data.frame(output_flatten)

output_flatten
#>    total        data.lens_id                     data.created
#> 1 446110 040-450-672-971-619 2019-08-12T03:30:43.659000+00:00
#>   data.publication_type
#> 1       journal article
#>                                                                     data.authors
#> 1 NA, Mark, Tushnet, M, magid, 1845306793, Harvard University, grid.38142.3c, US
#>                                                                                           data.title
#> 1 Institutions protecting constitutional democracy: Some conceptual and methodological preliminaries
#>   data.volume data.issue data.languages     data.references
#> 1          70          2             en 199-199-909-278-791
#>                              data.fields_of_study
#> 1 Liberal democracy, Sociology, Law, Constitution
#>                                                                                                 data.source_urls
#> 1 html, html, https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/utlj.2019-05-27, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/731612
#>                                                                                                                                                                                              data.abstract
#> 1 Chapter 9 of the South African Constitution refers to ‘institutions protecting constitutional democracy’ (IPDs). Contemporary constitution designers have written into new constitutions numerous suc...
#>   data.year_published data.references_count
#> 1                2020                     1
#>                                 data.external_ids data.start_page data.end_page
#> 1 magid, doi, 2964660712, 10.3138/utlj.2019-05-27              95           106
#>   data.author_count       data.date_published                 data.source.title
#> 1                 1 2020-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 University of Toronto Law Journal
#>   data.source.type       data.source.publisher   data.source.issn
#> 1          Journal University of Toronto Press 00420220, 17101174
#>   data.source.country data.source.asjc_codes
#> 1              Canada             3308, 3312
#>              data.source.asjc_subjects results
#> 1 Law, Sociology and Political Science       1

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R codes in Lens.org API documentation

https://docs.api.lens.org/samples.html#r

These are the basic codes this package uses

require(httr)
getScholarlyData <- function(token, query){
    url <- 'https://api.lens.org/scholarly/search'
    headers <- c('Authorization' = token, 'Content-Type' = 'application/json')
    httr::POST(url = url, add_headers(.headers=headers), body = query)
}
token <- 'your-access-token'
request <- '{
    "query": {
        "match_phrase": {
            "author.affiliation.name": "Harvard University"
        }
    },
    "size": 1,
    "sort": [{
        "year_published": "desc"
    }]
}'
data <- getScholarlyData(token, request)
content(data, "text")

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Development Status

Project Status: WIP – Initial development is in progress, but there has not yet been a stable, usable release suitable for the public. R CMD Check via {tic} Travis build status