scopusflow: A Reproducible Workflow Layer for 'Scopus' Bibliographic Searches

A coherent, quota-aware workflow layer over the Elsevier 'Scopus' Search 'API' <https://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html>. It builds reproducible search plans, retrieves records with rate-limit handling, retry with back-off and optional resumable caching, normalises results to a stable tidy schema, extracts and tracks changes in Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), sizes sets of concepts and their intersections, compares publication trends across topics, writes the search up as a reproducible record for a methods section following the 'PRISMA-S' reporting standard (Rethlefsen and others, 2021) <doi:10.1186/s13643-020-01542-z> and exports to formats compatible with downstream bibliometric tools. Network and 'API' errors are surfaced as typed conditions so that callers can respond to them programmatically. 'Scopus' is a trademark of Elsevier. This package is an independent client and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Elsevier.

Version:	0.4.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	cli, httr2 (≥ 1.0.0), jsonlite, rlang (≥ 1.1.0), stats, tibble, tools, utils
Suggests:	bslib, callr, fansi, ggplot2, grid, knitr, rmarkdown, shiny, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr
Published:	2026-08-21
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.scopusflow
Author:	Pablo Bernabeu [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Pablo Bernabeu <pcbernabeu at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/pablobernabeu/scopusflow/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/pablobernabeu/scopusflow, https://pablobernabeu.github.io/scopusflow/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-GB
Citation:	scopusflow citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	scopusflow results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

scopusflow.html , scopusflow.pdf

Vignettes:

About (source, R code) Analysing and visualising a literature (source, R code) Building and exporting a reference set (source, R code) Comparing topics over time (source, R code) Designing precise queries across disciplines (source, R code) Author keywords and references (source, R code) Search plans and quota-aware retrieval (source, R code) Get started (source, R code) Tracking how a literature changes between retrievals (source, R code) Using the code-free app (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	scopusflow_0.4.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: scopusflow_0.4.0.zip, r-release: scopusflow_0.4.0.zip, r-oldrel: scopusflow_0.4.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): scopusflow_0.4.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): scopusflow_0.4.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): scopusflow_0.4.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): scopusflow_0.4.0.tgz
Old sources:	scopusflow archive

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