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rscopus

Scopus Database 'API' Interface

v0.9.0 · Jul 30, 2025 · GPL-2

Description

Uses Elsevier 'Scopus' API <https://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html> to download information about authors and their citations.

Downloads

CRAN

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Last 90 days

177.9K

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Trend: -25.8% (30d vs prior 30d)

r2u CRAN

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autoCRAN

5

Last 7 days

19

Last 30 days

0

All-time

autoCRAN-only: this name is served only by autoCRAN, so the count is exact.

conda-forge CRAN

94

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256

Last 90 days

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Trend: -19% (30d vs prior 30d)

CRAN Check Status

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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 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Code

Structure

Lines of code

6,315

Files

102

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 3,998 (63.3%)Tests 53 (0.8%)Docs 1,845 (29.2%)Vignettes 419 (6.6%)

API

Exported functions

78

Internal functions

9

Recent export changes

v0.8.1+4 %>%, get_all_coauthors, is_elsevier_authorized +1 more
v0.6.6+4 bibtex_core_data, plumx_metrics, plumx_types +1 more

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.01

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

95.5%

\dontrun example ratio

23.1%

Roxygen coverage

98.7%

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

Yes

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

0%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

3.0.0

System requirements

C++ standard

License

GPL-2

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

10

First release

2015-11-04

Latest release

2025-07-30

Avg cadence

225 days

Cold removal rate

Dep drift

8

LOC over versions

v0.1.2: 1,596 LOCv0.3.1: 2,244 LOCv0.4.6: 2,278 LOCv0.5.3: 2,447 LOCv0.5.11: 3,828 LOCv0.6.1: 4,791 LOCv0.6.3: 4,889 LOCv0.6.6: 5,794 LOCv0.8.1: 6,303 LOCv0.9.0: 6,315 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.

Reverse Dependencies (2)

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies httr jsonlite plyr tidyr dplyr glue magrittr SportMiner bibliometrix rscopus

Version History

11 tracked
new 0.9.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.9.0 ← 0.8.1 diff Jul 30, 2025
updated 0.8.1 ← 0.6.6 diff Apr 1, 2025
updated 0.6.6 ← 0.6.3 diff Sep 16, 2019
updated 0.6.3 ← 0.6.1 diff Nov 18, 2018
updated 0.6.1 ← 0.5.11 diff Oct 22, 2018
updated 0.5.11 ← 0.5.3 diff May 23, 2018
updated 0.5.3 ← 0.4.6 diff Oct 11, 2017
updated 0.4.6 ← 0.3.1 diff Feb 14, 2017
updated 0.3.1 ← 0.1.2 diff Nov 15, 2016
new 0.1.2 Nov 3, 2015