Skip to content

LitFetchR

Automatically Fetching References Metadata from Literature Databases

v1.0.0 · Jun 18, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Provides functions to automatically retrieve and deduplicate reference metadata based on saved search strings. Access to Web of Science and Scopus requires personal API keys, while PubMed can be queried without one. The optional deduplication functionality requires the package 'ASySD' available from <https://github.com/camaradesuk/ASySD>.

Downloads

CRAN

473

Last 30 days

8776th

1.3K

Last 90 days

1.7K

Last year

Trend: +7.7% (30d vs prior 30d)

r2u

7

Last 30 days

25

Last 90 days

35

Last year

Trend: -58.8% (30d vs prior 30d)

r2u: no daily series yet

CRAN Check Status

13 OK
Show all 13 flavors
Flavor Status
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc OK
r-devel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-arm64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-patched-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-macos-arm64 OK
r-release-macos-x86_64 OK
r-release-windows-x86_64 OK

Check History

OK 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 25, 2026
NOTE 11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

package dependencies

Packages suggested but not available for checking: 'ASySD', 'taskscheduleR'
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

package dependencies

Packages suggested but not available for checking: 'ASySD', 'taskscheduleR'
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

package dependencies

Packages suggested but not available for checking: 'ASySD', 'cronR'

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies dplyr httr jsonlite openxlsx purrr xml2 LitFetchR

Version History

3 tracked
updated 1.0.0 ← 0.2.2 diff Jun 18, 2026
updated 0.2.2 ← 0.2.1 diff Apr 14, 2026
new 0.2.1 Mar 10, 2026

R Observatory began tracking this package on Mar 10, 2026; it first appeared on CRAN Feb 10, 2026. Releases before tracking aren’t shown.