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Acquiring full text articles fulltext is an R package I maintain to obtain full text versions of research articles for text mining. It’s a hard problem, with a spaghetti web of code. One of the hard problems is figuring out what the URL is for the full text version of an article. Publishers do not have consistent URL patterns through time, and so you can not set rules once and never revisit them....

So I want to mine some #altmetrics data for some research I’m thinking about doing. The steps would be: Get journal titles for ecology and evolution journals. Get DOI’s for all papers in all the above journal titles. Get altmetrics data on each DOI. Do some fancy analyses. Make som pretty figs. Write up results. It’s early days, so jus working on the first step. However, getting a list of journals in ecology and evolution is frustratingly hard....