Ever wondered if your favourite preprint has been published or wanted to link a publication and a preprint for some reason? Then {doilinker} can help! It implements a method developed by Cabanac, Oikonomidi and Boutron to match preprints and publications using information retrieved from Crossref.
The package can be installed from GitHub:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("lazappi/doilinker")First load the package.
Then we can search for linked references.
results <- search_doi_links("10.1101/133173")
#> Retrieving query data from Crossref...
#> Decided query is a preprint
#> Retrieving results data from Crossref...
#> Found 20 results
#> Checking results for matches...
#> Done!
head(results)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 39
#> alternative.id container.title created deposited published.print
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 1305 Genome Biology 2017-09-12 2023-08-… 2017-12
#> 2 NA PLOS Computational Biology 2018-06-25 2023-09-… NA
#> 3 2546 Genome Biology 2021-12-15 2023-11-… 2021-12
#> 4 2388 Genome Biology 2021-06-08 2021-06-… 2021-12
#> 5 NA Bioinformatics 2022-08-25 2022-10-… 2022-10-14
#> 6 NA Development 2019-07-11 2021-04-… 2019-07-01
#> # ℹ 34 more variables: published.online <chr>, doi <chr>, indexed <chr>,
#> # issn <chr>, issue <chr>, issued <chr>, member <chr>, prefix <chr>,
#> # publisher <chr>, score <chr>, source <chr>, reference.count <chr>,
#> # references.count <chr>, is.referenced.by.count <chr>, title <chr>,
#> # type <chr>, update.policy <chr>, url <chr>, volume <chr>, language <chr>,
#> # short.container.title <chr>, author <list>, link <list>, reference <list>,
#> # page <chr>, subject <chr>, funder <list>, update_to <list>, …The results contain information retrieved from Crossref. Most of the columns are self-explanatory but a few to be aware of are:
score - The query score returned by Crossref. Not used
for matching but can be useful to check.match - Whether each result is a match according to the
Cabanac, Oikonomidi and Boutron methodPlease refer to the Crossref documentation for more details on the other fields.
By default all results from Crossref are returned but you can filter
to only matches by setting filter_matches = TRUE. You can
also change the number of results returned by setting the
limit parameter.
If you use this package please cite the original publication for the linking method (if you want to cite the package directly as well that would be great 😉 but crediting the original authors is the important part):
Cabanac G, Oikonomidi T, Boutron I. “Day-to-day discovery of preprint-publication links.” Scientometrics. 2021;1–20. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-021-03900-7
@ARTICLE{Cabanac2021-ge,
title = "Day-to-day discovery of preprint-publication links",
author = "Cabanac, Guillaume and Oikonomidi, Theodora and Boutron, Isabelle",
journal = "Scientometrics",
pages = "1--20",
month = apr,
year = 2021,
language = "en"
}