Package: citationchaser
Title: Perform Forward and Backwards Chasing in Evidence Syntheses
Version: 0.0.4
Authors@R: c(
  person(given = "Neal",
         family = "Haddaway",
         role = c("aut", "cre"),
         email = "nealhaddaway@gmail.com",
         comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3902-2234")),
  person(given = "Matthew", family = "Grainger", role = "ctb"),
  person(given = "Charles", family = "Gray", role = "ctb"))
Description: In searching for research articles, we often want to
        obtain lists of references from across studies, and also obtain
        lists of articles that cite a particular study. In systematic
        reviews, this supplementary search technique is known as
        'citation chasing': forward citation chasing looks for all
        records citing one or more articles of known relevance;
        backward citation chasing looks for all records referenced in
        one or more articles. Traditionally, this process would be done
        manually, and the resulting records would need to be checked
        one-by-one against included studies in a review to identify
        potentially relevant records that should be included in a
        review. This package contains functions to automate this
        process by making use of the Lens.org API. An input article
        list can be used to return a list of all referenced records,
        and/or all citing records in the Lens.org database (consisting
        of PubMed, PubMed Central, CrossRef, Microsoft Academic Graph
        and CORE; <https://www.lens.org>).
Imports: dplyr, httr, jsonlite, maditr, MESS, networkD3, scales,
        tibble, utils, data.table
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown
License: GPL (>= 3)
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
Depends: R (>= 2.10)
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-10-15 08:27:03 UTC; root
Author: Neal Haddaway [aut, cre]
        (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3902-2234>), Matthew Grainger
        [ctb], Charles Gray [ctb]
Maintainer: Neal Haddaway <nealhaddaway@gmail.com>
Repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2022-01-27 09:40:02 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cran/citationchaser
RemoteRef: HEAD
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