DESCRIPTION

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
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
Depends: 
    R (>= 2.10)