Add download network button

[DrMattG]

Need a static and dynamic (html) options

[samstewart11]

It would be helpful to be able to download network data from the Shiny App - current reference/citation downloads don't indicate which submitted DOI points to which reference or citation.

The data is clearly in the system somewhere since it's visualized in the n/w, but that data doesn't seem to be obtainable.

[nealhaddaway]

Thanks! Do you want the visualisation or the data? We should be able to download the viz easily (right, @DrMattG ?).

If you want the data, what format would you want it in? We could add the starting article ID to an RIS field for each record, or would you want a CSV with matched lens-ids?

[samstewart11]

I could envision it a bunch of ways, so it might depend on what is easiest for you.

1. Adding as a field in the RIS record would work, but might be tricky to implement if there are multiple citations of the same document. The same would be true of the citations.
2. It could be added as an additional column in the analysis section, though that would have the same problems as 1
3. It could be added as an additional download in the analysis
4. It could be added as a download button on the network page

I would guess that 4 might be the easiest - if the network data is in an edgelist format then that might be the easiest to download. If adding it to the RIS file is possible then that'd work too, I just think the multiple citations could be a hurdle.

[nealhaddaway]

Thanks - the data are easy to link because each record has a unique lens-ID. What I more meant was what do you want to do with it? Is it just information in the app (in viz/tables but not downloaded), in the RIS (information but not usable beyond record-by-record data extraction), or in a digital file format for some external analysis (CSV or JSON). That would help us decide what to include and how :) 🙏🏻

[samstewart11]

It's for external analysis, so CSV or JSON might make the most sense. We're looking at the forward and backward citations networks from the papers in our systematic review, so knowing which papers contribute the forward or backward reference is necessary.

We'd also like to look at some of the network metrics on the citation network itself, but that's secondary to our primary purpose.