Changelog • scimetr

scimetr 1.2.0 (2026-03-01)

Changes to prepare the package for its submission to CRAN (Defined global variables through utils::globalVariables() to avoid check warnings related to dplyr usage, updated documentation, urls, package description, dependencies, …).
Consistent naming of functions using the snake_case convention
- ImportSources.wos() renamed to import_wos().
- CreateDB() renamed to db_bib().
- CreateDBJCR() renamed to db_jcr().
- AddDBJCR() renamed to add_jcr().
- get.idXxxx() functions renamed to get_id_xxxx()
  idXxxx arguments renamed to id_xxxx.
- TC.authors() renamed to author_metrics()
  TC.index argument renamed to index.

Added methods for wos.jcr-class objects: plot.wos.jcr(), summary.wos.jcr(), print.summary.wos.jcr(), plot.summary.wos.jcr(), summary.year.jcr(), print.summary.year.jcr(), plot.summary.year.jcr()
Added dataset dbjcr.
Added functions CreateDBJCR(), AddDBJCR(), get_jcr(), get_jcr_cat().
Added (internal) global variables .jcr.labels and .all.labels.
summary_year() is now a generic function (with methods for wos.db and wos.jcr classes).
Added a return value in plot methods plot.wos.db(), plot.summary.wos.db() and plot.summary.year.wos().

Major internal changes:
- Changes to the database structure: new variables, tables, and relationships have been added.
- NA_character_ is used instead of "" as missing value in string variables.
- New global objects .wos.labels and WosCat (stored in R/sysdata.rda).
New generic function CreateDB() (the previous function CreateDB.wos() is now method CreateDB.wos.data()).
Added arguments idOI, idRI, idAffiliations to get.idDocs().
Added functions get.idOI(), get.idRI(), get.idAffiliations().
New results were added to summary() and summary_year().
A new dataset wosdf is included instead of the previous ones.
Changes in match_authors() to speed up computations.

Changes in CreateDB.wos() to correct inconsistencies in ISSN and eISSN of WoS downloaded data.

Added NEWS.md (Changelog)
Small changes in ImportSources.wos() (format changes in WoS tab-delimited files).
Fixed bug in authors.short() (when author’s first name is not included after a comma).
Added a check in CreateDB.wos() for duplicated ORCIDs.