rxivistr

Rxivist is developed and maintained by the Blekhman Lab at the University of Minnesota. It indexes articles from bioRxiv, a free preprint server by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. This package is a client for Rxivist API and can be used to access:

• Metadata on articles published on biorxiv, indexed in the Rxivist
• Information about authors of the aforementioned articles
• Usage statistics (e.g. number of downloads for specific paper)

Rxivist project is independent of biorxiv. For more information about Rxivist, please visit Rxivist website (https://rxivist.org/) or read the following articles:

• Tracking the popularity and outcomes of all bioRxiv preprints. eLife. doi: 10.7554/eLife.45133.
• Rxivist.org: Sorting biology preprints using social media and readership metrics. PLOS Biology. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000269.

Installation

To install rxivistr package, run:

devtools::install_github("ikodvanj/rxivistr")

Using rxivistr

Load the package using library() function.

library(rxivistr)

Use one of the following functions:

• rxivist_search - retrieves articles with the matching description
• article_details - retrieves data about a single paper and all of its authors
• article_downloads - retrieves monthly download statistics for articles.
• authors_rank - retrieves top 200 authors in the specified category.
• author - provides information about the specified author.
• category_list - retrieves a list of all categories
• rxivist_stats - retrieves basic statistics about the number of articles indexed by the Rxivist.

The use of this package is explained in detail in the vignette and the Rxivist API documentation can be found at https://rxivist.org/docs.