openalexR

an R package to interface with OpenAlex API

trangdata.github.io/oa-boston

• Entities
• Search authors
• Output

You can look for an entity interactively at https://explore.openalex.org/. Or:

library(openalexR)

jj_hadley_au <- oa_fetch(
  "authors",
  display_name = "JJ Allaire|Hadley Wickham"
)

jj_hadley_au %>% 
  mutate(id = openalexR:::shorten_oaid(id)) %>% 
  select(id, display_name, works_count)

# A tibble: 4 × 3
  id          display_name   works_count
  <chr>       <chr>                <int>
1 A5016175339 Hadley Wickham         415
2 A5061795112 JJ Allaire              89
3 A5064454754 Hadley Wickham           2
4 A5086796000 Hadley Wickham           2

jj_hadley <- oa_fetch(
  "works",
  author.id = jj_hadley_au$id[1:2]
)

DT::datatable(jj_hadley)

Comparing concepts

Thank you!

Give it a try 🌟

https://github.com/ropensci/openalexR