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openalexR 2.0.0

Breaking changes in column names in the output of oa_fetch:
- Works:
  - so is now source_display_name
  - so_id is now source_id
  - host_organization now contains the id of the host organization
  - host_organization_name now contains the name of the host organization
  - ab is now abstract
  - url is now landing_page_url
  - author is now authorships
  - the nested columns under authors no longer have the au prefix
  - New columns: fwci, referenced_works_count, keywords
- Authors:
  - affiliation* is removed
  - New columns: last_known_institutions, 2yr_mean_citedness, h_index, i10_index
Removed concepts as an entity
Added keywords as an entity
Added get_coverage() to track the oa2df-mapped columns of OpenAlex fields
Deprecated oa2bibliometrix(). Use bibliometrix::convert2df() (from the bibliometrix R package) instead.

openalexR 1.4.0

“topics” are now a valid entity in oa_fetch
The column “topics” replaces concepts in most entities’ returned dataframes
For Works, “topics” and “concepts” are now returned as separate columns

openalexR 1.3.1

solved bug in au_affiliation_raw in PR#241

openalexR 1.3.0

Breaking change: two arguments in oa_snowball are renamed: citing_filter is now citing_params, and cited_by_filter is now cited_by_params.
Introduced oa_generate: A generator function to make request to OpenAlex API and returns one record at a time.
Fixed queries with group_by.
Improved paging control: the user can now specify the pages they want in oa_fetch or oa_request.
Improve oa_snowball performance.
Allowed the use of options$sample with search.
“venues”” is no longer a valid value for entity. Use “sources” instead.

openalexR 1.2.2

solved issue with CRAN test

openalexR 1.2.1

many improvements in bibliometrix support
solved issue with CRAN test

openalexR 1.2.0

many improvements in oa_snowball
added new openalex entities
solved CRAN issue about packageVersion()

openalexR 1.1.0

Basic paging is applied when using options$sample
Bug fixes for rbind in oa2df

openalexR 1.0.2.9

Breaking change: Reorder of the first two arguments in oa_fetch: entity now comes before idenfitifier. This should not affect your workflow too much unless you have been getting article information from OpenAlex IDs.
new arguments to oa_fetch: sample and seed allows the user to download a random subset of the entities instead of the entire set.
oa_ngrams gets you N-grams of works
abstract now defaults to TRUE to avoid issues.
New argument to oa_fetch: api_key
Arguments sample, seed, sort, and select are now grouped into options.
Bug fixes
Improved documentation: group functions in Reference, details on search, etc.

openalexR 1.0.1

Improve snowball #9.
Batch queries when a filter has more than 50 values #18.
Bug fixes.
Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

openalexR 1.0.0

Breaking change: now uses a more canonical way to filter #7.
In oa_fetch, abstract now defaults to FALSE to save compute/query time/space. You will need to set abstract = TRUE to retrieve abstracts for the articles.
Added website, hex.
Added tests.
Added R CMD CHECK as a GH Action
Bug fixes.
Added vignettes.

openalexR 0.0.2

Some bug fixes

openalexR 0.0.1

First CRAN release

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