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Manual reference retrieval

If you are here, this is because you want to manually retrieve a list of references, outside of the automated task that you might have set up after reading LitFetchR (Tutorial).

Setup

From your individual review R directory, load LitFetchR:

# Load LitFetchR
library(LitFetchR)

Manual reference retrieval

Make sure to have saved your search string using create_save_search() as the following function needs to access the file search_list.txt, see LitFetchR (Tutorial).

# Load LitFetchR
library(LitFetchR)

# Retrieve the list of references corresponding to your saved search string(s)
#We recommend choosing the R project directory as the directory in the function. It has to be the directory where "search_list.txt" and "history_search.xlsx" have been saved.

# Example of what you should see: 
# > manual_fetch(wos = TRUE,
#                scp = TRUE,
#                pmd = TRUE,
#                directory = "C:/path-to-project-directory",
#                dedup = TRUE,
#                open_file = FALSE)
# [1] 126
# Finished batch number 1
# Finished batch number 2
# [1] "10.1016/j.aaf.2023.11.002 1 / 126"
# [1] "10.3390/fishes10090439 2 / 126"
# [FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS EXAMPLE WE ARE NOT SHOWING EACH LINE OF THE COMMAND]
# [THE REMOVED LINES CORRESPOND TO MOST OF THE REFERENCE RETRIEVAL COUNTING]
# [1] "NA 125 / 126"
# [1] "NA 126 / 126"
# [1] 22
# Finished batch number 1
# File already exists
# [1] "10.1007/s12602-023-10207-x 1 / 22"
# [1] "10.1016/j.fsi.2025.110189 2 / 22"
# [FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS EXAMPLE WE ARE NOT SHOWING EACH LINE OF THE COMMAND]
# [THE REMOVED LINES CORRESPOND TO MOST OF THE REFERENCE RETRIEVAL COUNTING]
# [1] "10.1111/j.1472-765X.2010.02894.x 21 / 22"
# [1] "NA 22 / 22"
# [1] 106
# Finished batch 1 for fish AND "vibrio harveyi" AND diagnostic
# File already exists
# [1] "10.1016/j.fsi.2025.110503 1 / 106"
# [1] "10.1016/j.fsi.2025.110501 2 / 106"
# [FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS EXAMPLE WE ARE NOT SHOWING EACH LINE OF THE COMMAND][1] "NA 105 / 106"
# [THE REMOVED LINES CORRESPOND TO MOST OF THE REFERENCE RETRIEVAL COUNTING]
# [1] "NA 106 / 106"
# Warning: The following columns are missing: pages, number, record_id, isbn
# formatting data...
# identifying potential duplicates...
# identified duplicates!
# flagging potential pairs for manual dedup...
# Joining with `by = join_by(duplicate_id.x, duplicate_id.y)`
# 254 citations loaded...
# 14 duplicate citations removed...
# 240 unique citations remaining!
# Deduplication script has been executed, concatenated deduplicated references had been exported.
# Warning message:
# In add_missing_cols(raw_citations) :
#   Search contains missing values for the record_id column. A record_id will be created using row numbers

After running manual_fetch(), new unique history_dedup_ and citationCSV_ files are created and history_id is updated. See bottom of the page LitFetchR (Tutorial) for more information about those files.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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