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summary.bibliometrix

Summarizing bibliometric analysis results

summary method for class 'bibliometrix'

## S3 method for class 'bibliometrix'
summary(object, ...)

`object`	is the object for which a summary is desired.
`...`	can accept two arguments: `k` integer, used for table formatting (number of rows). Default value is 10. `pause` logical, used to allow pause in screen scrolling of results. Default value is `pause = FALSE`. `width` integer, used to define screen output width. Default value is `width = 120`. `verbose` logical, used to allow screen output. Default is TRUE.

The function summary computes and returns a list of summary statistics of the object of class bibliometrics.

the list contains the following objects:

`MainInformation`		Main Information about Data
`AnnualProduction`		Annual Scientific Production
`AnnualGrowthRate`		Annual Percentage Growth Rate
`MostProdAuthors`		Most Productive Authors
`MostCitedPapers`		Top manuscripts per number of citations
`MostProdCountries`		Corresponding Author's Countries
`TCperCountries`		Total Citation per Countries
`MostRelSources`		Most Relevant Sources
`MostRelKeywords`		Most Relevant Keywords

data(scientometrics, package = "bibliometrixData")

results <- biblioAnalysis(scientometrics)

summary(results)

Comprehensive Science Mapping Analysis

v3.1.1

GPL-3

Authors

Massimo Aria [cre, aut], Corrado Cuccurullo [aut]

Initial release