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Nov 28, 2022 • 14 tweets • 8 min read
Inspired by @PaoloCrosetto's blog on #MDPI, this weekend I've been on a side-quest exploring their journals publications using R and web scraping package #rvest. A thread 🧵1/11 👇 #Rstats
Basically, I use two loops to download public editorial information. My example code is for "Plants #MDPI" but is easy to adapt to other journals. Takes about 2 hours to run (>8000 papers to explore).
The first loop, extracts identity urls from MDPI's search website.
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