A simple package to explore MDPI´s articles by journal. A series of functions help to obtain lists of papers, obtain data from them (turnaround times, special issues and articles types) and create summary graphs.
MDPIexploreR 
Welcome to the wonders of MDPIexploreR, an R package created to provide comprehensive tools to scrape and analyze data from the MDPI journals. It allows users to extract metrics such as submission-to-acceptance times, article types, and whether articles are part of special issues. The package can also visualize this information through plots. Additionally, MDPIexploreR offers tools to explore patterns of self-citations within articles and provides insights into guest-edited special issues.
Installation
You can install and load MDPIexploreR CRAN version with:
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install.packages("MDPIexploreR")
library(MDPIexploreR)r
devtools::installgithub("pgomba/MDPIexplorer")
library(MDPIexploreR)Citation
If you use MDPIexploreR in a publication or report, please cite it. Find the correct citation here or running this code:
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citation("MDPIexploreR")Head to Introduction to MDPIexploreR to get a glimpse of the functionalities of MDPIexploreR:
