OpenAlex2Pajek -- an R Package for converting OpenAlex bibliographic data into Pajek networks

Abstract

For analysis of bibliographic data, we can obtain from bibliographic databases the corresponding collection of bibliographic networks. Recently OpenAlex, a new open-access bibliographic database, became available. We present OpenAlex2Pajek, an R package for converting OpenAlex data into a collection of Pajek's networks. For an illustration, we created a temporal weighted network describing the co-authorship between world countries for years from 1990 to 2023. We present some analyses of this network.

arXiv commentDraft version with vector graphics color figures of the paper published in Collnet 2024 proceedings ISBN 978-93-86578-65-5