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bibliometrix v1.3 (Release date: 2016-11-17)

New functionality:

• termExtraction() extracts terms from a textual field (abstract, title, author's keywords, etc.) of a bibliographic data frame. Now it integrates Porter's stemming algorithm and term extraction procedure for English, French, German, Italian and Spanish textual contents.

bibliometrix v1.2 (Release date: 2016-10-18)

New functionality:

• keywordAssoc() associates authors' keywords to keywords plus
• keywordGrowth() calculates yearly cumulative occurrences of top keywords.
• termExtraction() extracts terms from a textual field (abstract, title, author's keywords, etc.) of a bibliographic data frame.

Changes:

• New statistics in summary() function
• Minor fixes in convert2df() function
• Minor corrections in vignettes and documentation

bibliometrix v1.1 (Release date: 2016-09-07)

Changes:

• Minor fixes in convert2df() function
• Minor corrections in vignettes and documentation

bibliometrix v1.0 (Release date: 2016-06-28)

New functionality:

• histNetwork() creates a historical co-citation network from a bibliographic data frame.

Changes:

• Minor fixes in cocMatrix() function
• Minor corrections in vignettes and documentation

bibliometrix v0.8 (Release date: 2016-06-10)

New functionality:

• Hindex() calculates the authors' h-index and its variants (g-index, m-index) in a a bibliographic collection.

New data:

• garfield dataset

Changes:

• Minor corrections in vignettes and documentation

bibliometrix v0.7 (Release date: 2016-06-04)

New functionality:

• timeslice() calculates Jaccard and Salton similarity indices among manuscripts of a coupling network
• dfMerge() merges two bibliographic data frames deleting duplicate manuscripts.
• metaTagExtraction() now extracts also university of affiliation for each co-author

Changes:

• Minor fixes in metaTagExtraction() function
• Minor corrections in vignettes and documentation

bibliometrix v0.6 (Release date: 2016-05-30)

New functionality:

• couplingSimilarity() calculates Jaccard and Salton similarity indices among manuscripts of a coupling network

Changes:

• Minor corrections in vignettes and documentation

bibliometrix v0.5 (Release date: 2016-05-25)

New functionality:

• localCitations() generates the frequency table of the most cited local authors.

Changes:

• Minor fixes in citations() function
• Minor corrections in vignettes and documentation

bibliometrix v0.4 (Release date: 2016-05-23)

Changes:

• Minor fixes in citations() function

bibliometrix v0.3 (Release date: 2016-05-21)

Changes:

• Minor corrections in vignettes and documentation

bibliometrix v0.2 (Release date: 2016-05-19)

Changes:

• Additional vignettes and documentation

New functionality:

• citations() generates the frequency table of the most cited references or the most cited first authors (of references).
• lotka() now performs Kolmogorov-Smirnoff two sample test among observed and theoretical Lotka's distributions.

Bug Fixes:

• Minor fixes in importing routines and summary function.

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