Abbreviate Authors — abbreviate

This function abbreviates the author names in a given data frame of works. The output is a list of author names in the format "First Author et al. (Year)" or "Author1 & Author2 (Year)".

Usage

abbreviate_authors(oa_works_df)

Arguments

oa_works_df: A data frame containing the works. It should have columns 'publication_year' and 'author'. 'author' should be a data frame with a column 'au_display_name'. One example is the data frame from `openalexR`.

Value

A vector of abbreviated author names and publication years.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
abbreviate_authors(oa_works_df)
}