ZoteroRnalysis

Analyzing your Zotero library of references with R, to produce graphics and csv files

A more user-friendly variant of this code is available at ObservableHQ (in Javascript).

• Everything you need to know is self-contained in the ZoteroRnalysis.R file.
• The file My library.csv is an example of Zotero references to be processed.
• The files *_reconciled.csv are examples of reconciled data with OpenRefine.
• The R program will produce a output subfolder with .pdf and .csv files

Examples of analysis :

• Distribution of the journal articles, by years of publication
• Journal names, counted and ranked
• Book publisher names, counted and ranked
• Author names, counted and ranked
• Languages used, counted and ranked
• Number of authors per papers, distributed by year
• Personal tags used, counted, ranked and distributed by year (two levels of tags; all, top or selection of tags)
• For each article, what is the time span between the journal inception year and the article publication year ? (with reconciled data from Wikidata with OpenRefine)
• Distribution of the countries of origin of the journals (with reconciled data from Wikidata with OpenRefine)
• Distribution of the Master and PhD thesis, by years of publication
• Distribution of the countries of origin of the thesis (Master and PhD)
• Distribution and average of the number of pages (Master and PhD)

View sample graphics visualizations here : https://jdr.hypotheses.org/1907

Credits & Acknowledgments

• Author : Pascal Martinolli
• Date (v1) : 2023-12-01
• Thanks to :
  • ChatGPT 3.5 by OpenAI for a lot of help with back and forth feedbacks on my R code
  • Caroline Patenaude, Data librarian at Université de Montréal for teaching me R & OpenRefine
  • Céline Van den Rul at https://towardsdatascience.com/create-a-word-cloud-with-r-bde3e7422e8a for word clouds
  • David Tingle at https://davidtingle.com/misc/bib for ideas of analysis to perform
  • Zotero development team
  • R and R Studio development team
  • OpenRefine development team
  • Wikidata development team and community of contributors

GPL-3.0 license https://github.com/pmartinolli/ZoteroRnalysis/blob/main/LICENSE

Last version of the code available at https://github.com/pmartinolli/ZoteroRnalysis/