R Observatory: Metrics for MDPIexploreR version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MDPIexploreR

0.3.0

Web Scraping and Bibliometric Analysis of MDPI Journals

0packages depend

2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Pablo Gómez BarreiroFirst published 2024-10-152 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides comprehensive tools to scrape and analyze data from the MDPI journals. It allows users to extract metrics such as submission-to-acceptance times, article types, and whether articles are part of special issues. The package can also visualize this information through plots. Additionally, 'MDPIexploreR' offers tools to explore patterns of self-citations within articles and provides insights into guest-edited special issues.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("MDPIexploreR", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("pgomba/MDPI_exploreR")

Development version from pgomba/MDPI_exploreR. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-mdpiexplorer

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-MDPIexploreR

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-MDPIexploreR

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 139 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 27%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,474 · ~5/day · ~166/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

11730 days

51690 days

2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ pgomba/mdpi_explorer

21Stars

6Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

137Commits

2Contributors

scientific-journalsweb-scrapinganalysisdata-analysisdata-visualizationmdpimetricsvisualization

License CC-BY-4.0 · 137 commits · Last activity 2025-03-19

Stars over time

2025-06-16 · 212026-07-07 · 21

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pgomba/mdpi_explorer on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (8)

dplyr ggplot2 lubridate magrittr rvest scales stringr tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Pablo Gómez Barreiro

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Pablo Gómez Barreiro

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.0Latest
2025-03-19 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.0
2024-10-15
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-10-15
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: CC BY 4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 103 KB / 2 files
Download size: 178 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("MDPIexploreR")

Format

Gómez Barreiro, P. (2025). MDPIexploreR: Web Scraping and Bibliometric Analysis of MDPI Journals (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MDPIexploreR

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MDPIexploreR version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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