Track Publication Years from References

Processes citation data from network objects to extract and fetch publication years of cited references. Handles both Web of Science and OpenAlex data sources automatically.

Usage

track_publications_year_from_references(
  network,
  cr_column = "CR",
  py_column = "PY"
)

Arguments

network

A tbl_graph object from tidygraph containing network data

cr_column

Name of the column containing citation references (default: "CR")

py_column

Name of the column containing publication years (default: "PY")

Value

A tbl_graph object with added CR_PY column containing publication years of cited references, separated by pipes ("|") for multiple references

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Process Web of Science network data
network_with_years <- track_publications_year_from_references(network_wos)

# Process OpenAlex network data
network_with_years <- track_publications_year_from_references(network_oa)

# Specify custom column names
network_with_years <- track_publications_year_from_references(
  network, 
  cr_column = "references", 
  py_column = "year"
)
} # }