bibliometrixExtra: R for synonyms (Extended functions for bibliometrix)

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Build a customed package bibliometrixExtra (Extended functions for bibliometrix) to put the functions in, that will make the synonyms replacing processing easier.

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★ Usage

remotes::install_github('tsai-jiewen/bibliometrixExtra')
library(bibliometrixExtra) # syn_export(), syn_replace()
library(bibliometrix)
library(tidyverse)

1. Using syn_export() to export csv from bibliometrix.

(from the customed package bibliometrixExtra )

data(scientometrics, package = "bibliometrixData")

# make a tab-freq table, than export as a csv file
syn_export(
    file = 'test1124.csv'   # export file name
    data = scientometrics,  # the biblio data
    tag = 'ID',             # the field tag  
)

the export file looks like that:

• fill in the terms you want to replace by in col C (replace), one by one.
• delete the terms no need to change in col B (pattern).

like this, (for example) change 'CITATIONS' and 'CITATION ANALYSIS' to 'APPLE'.

2. Using syn_import() to read the edited csv file into R env.

DTF <- syn_import(file = 'test1124.csv')

check

> DTF
            pattern  replace
1         CITATIONS    APPLE
2 CITATION ANALYSIS    APPLE

3. Using syn_replace() to replace the original synonyms terms.

(from the customed package bibliometrixExtra )

take 'ID' for example. you can change to 'DE', etc, but remember keep the $ID and tag='ID' as the same.

scientometrics$ID <- syn_replace(
  df = DTF,               # the edited file you import
  data = scientometrics,  # the original biblio data
  tag = 'ID'              # the field tag  
)

Remark

the term-replacing takes place at the bibliometrix data.frame, so it can continue to be used in the next analysis.