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citelens is on CRAN

I'm happy to share that  citelens  0.1.0 is now available on  CRAN .  What it does citelens  turns the citations you already export into something you can analyze. It converts RefWorks exports to BibTeX, loads BibTeX into a data frame, and exports the results to Excel. It also reads saved Google Scholar pages and can look up missing abstracts through OpenAlex. Once the abstracts are in, it can analyze them with topic modeling (LDA), document similarity, and trends over time, with results returned as charts and data frames. The conversion code is written in C++ via Rcpp, so large reference libraries convert quickly.  Fig 1. Topic trends over time. Install install.packages("citelens") The development version is on  GitHub : remotes::install_github("cownr10r/citelens") Fig 2. Word trends over time. Why I built it I built citelens for researchers who want to explore the literature on a topic but work somewhere that doesn’t provide Web of Science or Scopus,...