R Observatory: Metrics for bibliometrix version 5.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bibliometrix

5.4.1

Comprehensive Science Mapping Analysis

4packages depend

438.8Kdownloads / year

42.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Massimo AriaFirst published 2016-05-0865 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tool for quantitative research in scientometrics and bibliometrics. It implements the comprehensive workflow for science mapping analysis proposed in Aria M. and Cuccurullo C. (2017) doi:10.1016/j.joi.2017.08.007. 'bibliometrix' provides various routines for importing bibliographic data from 'SCOPUS', 'Clarivate Analytics Web of Science' (https://www.webofknowledge.com/), 'Digital Science Dimensions' (https://www.dimensions.ai/), 'OpenAlex' (https://openalex.org/), 'Cochrane Library' (https://www.cochranelibrary.com/), 'Lens' (https://lens.org), and 'PubMed' (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) databases, performing bibliometric analysis and building networks for co-citation, coupling, scientific collaboration and co-word analysis.

Install

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

install.packages("bibliometrix", 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("massimoaria/bibliometrix")

Development version from massimoaria/bibliometrix. 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-bibliometrix

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-bibliometrix

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-bibliometrix

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 9.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-arm64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.09

42.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

34

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
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 66%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 97%
References docs: 5%

Downloads

438.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #616 · ~1.2K/day · ~36.6K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ massimoaria/bibliometrix

652Stars

171Forks

56Open issues

0Open PRs

34Releases

1,519Commits

13Contributors

bibliometricsisi-webscopuscitationscitation-networkcouplingco-authorsco-occurence

1,519 commits · Last activity 2026-08-17 · +1.1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

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5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

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Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

35 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (34)

statsgrDevicesbibliometrixData contentanalysis (>= 1.1.0)dimensionsR dplyr ca forcats ggplot2 ggrepel httr2 igraph jsonliteMatrixmethodsplotly openalexR openxlsx pubmedR purrr readr readxl rscopus shiny shinycssloaders SnowballC stringdist stringi stringr tibble tidyr tidytext visNetwork xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr ragg rmarkdown testthat wordcloud2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

PWIR bibliometrixData dimensionsR pubmedR

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Massimo Aria

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

Massimo Aria

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Corrado Cuccurullo

Author

Copyright holders (1)

Massimo Aria

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-05-08
Total releases: 65 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 531 KB / 6 files
Download size: 2.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Aria, M., & Cuccurullo, C. (2026). bibliometrix: Comprehensive Science Mapping Analysis (Version 5.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bibliometrix

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bibliometrix version 5.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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