Golden Orb Analyser is an R project that import and analyse bibliometric files from Scopus and Web of Science. It`s main goal is to provide a quick characterization of a scientific field.
For now you can make it work in a few simple steps:
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Search for your scientific field of interest in Web of Science Core Collection.
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Download all the records obtained from the above mentionned search.
To download the files :
- click on the arrow next to Save to EndNote online.
- click on Save to Other File Formats in the menu that just appeared.
- enter the required information. Note that you will be able to download only 500 records at the time. Therefore, you will have to repeat that step a few times.
- in the record content field choose Full Record and Cited References
- in the file format field choose Tab-delimited (Win/Mac, UTF-8)
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Now for windows, Linux and Mac users alike, you can put all the downloaded files in a folder which you should name
WOS_files/. This folder should be in thegoldenOrbAnalyser/directory. -
Now you can open R console or Rstudio or anything else you use.
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In the console you should run
setwd('path to goldenOrbAnalyser/')where you replace path to goldenOrAnalyser with the path on your computer. -
Then you can finally open the app.R script and run all lines. Note that you should install the required packages before hand. A list of those is provided at the top of the app.R script. Note that the
make_cocitation_table_new()function takes a while and that if you have more then approximatly 7000 records in yourWOS_files/in a computer with 4.00 GB of ram it will abruptly(are not so abruptly because it will lag much) stop the analysis.