R Observatory: Metrics for openalexR version 3.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

openalexR

3.1.0

Getting Bibliographic Records from 'OpenAlex' Database Using 'DSL' API

5packages depend

202.6Kdownloads / year

85.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Massimo AriaFirst published 2022-04-2217 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A set of tools to extract bibliographic content from 'OpenAlex' database using API https://developers.openalex.org/.

Install

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

install.packages("openalexR", 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("ropensci/openalexR")

Development version from ropensci/openalexR. 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-openalexr

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-openalexR

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-openalexR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.36

85.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

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 · 1,899 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 13%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

202.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,035 · ~555/day · ~16.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

11K30 days

38.6K90 days

202.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on359 r2u13 autocran2.5K conda_forge

Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/openalexr

143Stars

26Forks

21Open issues

1Open PRs

6Releases

589Commits

9Contributors

bibliographic-databibliographic-databasebibliometricsbibliometrixscience-mapping

589 commits · Last activity 2026-07-06 · +0.7% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-20 · 1182026-08-10 · 143

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/openalexr on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Show all practices

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (5)

cli httr jsonlite rlang tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

testthat dplyr knitr rmarkdown tidyr purrr ggplot2 coro rentrez rrapply covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

1indirect

bibliometrix birddog contentanalysis bibnets mpaR

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Massimo Aria

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (3)

Massimo Aria

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

June Choe

Author · added in 1.0.2.9

Trang Le

Author · added in 1.0.0

Contributors (1)

Corrado Cuccurullo

Contributor · added in 1.0.2.9

Copyright holders (1)

Massimo Aria

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

3.1.0Latest
2026-07-03 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.0.1
2026-01-14 · diff ↗
3.0.0
2026-01-10 · diff ↗
2.0.2
2025-10-21 · diff ↗
2.0.1
2025-05-04 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.0.0
2025-04-05 · diff ↗
1.4.0
2024-07-11 · diff ↗
1.3.1
2024-05-08 · diff ↗
1.3.0
2024-05-03 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.2.3
2023-11-16 · diff ↗
1.2.2
2023-09-24 · diff ↗
1.2.1
2023-09-01 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2023-08-08 · diff ↗

Show 9 earlier events

1.1.0
2023-05-04 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.2.9
2023-04-01 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-04-01
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-03-31
issues were not corrected in time
1.0.0
2022-10-06 · diff ↗
0.0.1
2022-04-22
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-04-22
Total releases: 17 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 6.5 KB / 3 files
Download size: 99 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("openalexR")

Format

Aria, M., Choe, J., Cuccurullo, C., & Le, T. (2026). openalexR: Getting Bibliographic Records from 'OpenAlex' Database Using 'DSL' API (Version 3.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.openalexR

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for openalexR version 3.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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