Import bibliographic data downloaded from Web of Science (WoS).

Reads bibliography entries from UTF-8 encoded Tab-delimited files containing "Full Record and Cited References" (see wosdf and vignette Downloading data from the Web of Science).

Usage

import_wos(path = ".", pattern = "*.txt", all = TRUE, progress = NULL)

path: character; path to the directory containing the files.
pattern: regular expression; only matching files will be loaded. Defaults to "*.txt".
all: logical; indicating whether sources without ISSN are included (TRUE) or not (FALSE) in the result. Defaults to TRUE.
progress: logical; indicating whether a progress bar should be displayed. Defaults to TRUE when R is used interactively and there is more than one file, and FALSE otherwise.

A data.frame with rows corresponding to sources and columns to WoS variables.