bibliometrics

A convergence warning from lme4 does not by itself show that a model is wrong. One check that the lme4 authors recommend is to refit the model with every available optimiser through allFit and compare the estimates that matter. This post records the candidate publications found by a reproducible search of Scopus, Europe PMC and OpenAlex, and explains why the list can only be a starting point for screening.

This reproducible descriptive analysis uses annual Scopus counts to compare how often records in nine query-defined literatures contain a form of “speculate” in their titles, abstracts or keywords. The count is a proxy for explicit wording in indexed records and says little about the quality of the evidence.

A literature-search export does not preserve the decisions that produced it. This post uses scopusflow to define a search in advance, resume it from checkpoints and generate a PRISMA-S search record from the resulting data.

Reproducible, quota-aware Scopus searches in R and Python.

4authors-year-doi-url is a CSL style designed to be as compact as possible while retaining the three most critical pieces of information for a reference: who (authors), when (year), and where to find it (DOI/URL).

Extension of the rscopus R package with functions that manage search quotas, retrieve DOIs for reference managers, search for additional DOIs, compare publication counts across topics, and visualize bibliometric comparisons over time.