Tag Archive: scraping

easyPubMed for business: scraping PubMed data in R for a targeting campaign

Damiano January 21, 2016 6 Comments

In this post, I will cover how to use easyPubMed (R Package) to retrieve data from PubMed. This example is focused on data extraction from PubMed records for a targeting campaign. The post is aimed at suggesting a business-oriented way…
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data science, tutorials

businessPubMed, CRAN, easyPubMed, PubMed, R, regex, scraping

Scraping Impact Factor data from the Web using httr and regex in R

Damiano January 2, 2016 0 Comments

A couple of days ago, I found a website listing Impact Factor data of many scientific Journals organized in HTML tables (http://www.citefactor.org). Unfortunately, this website didn’t allow users to download Impact Factor tables in 1-click. Moreover, data were scattered over…
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data science

HTML, httr, R, regex, scraping