Scopus

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2019-06-08

* In `AbstractRetrieval().references`, add field "type" for the status of the parsed reference.
* Raise proper Scopus.exception even when no Scopus-supplied error message exists.
* In all search classes, properties return None if download=False instead of raising an error.
* In `AbstractRetrieval()`, update docstrings.
* Fix bug related to creating the config when the config doesn't exist.
* Fix bug when using `AbstractRetrieval()` in Python 2.

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2019-05-28

* Cache files in subfolders according to the used view.
* Add method `.estimate_uniqueness()` to `AuthorRetrieval()` to estimate how unique an author profile is.
* Use error message provided by Scopus for ScopusErrors.
* Add tip how to deal with "KeyError: 'eid'".
* Remove deprecated classes, modules, parameters and attributes. Removed deprecated classes are `ScopusAbstract()`, `ScopusAffiliation()`, `ScopusAuthor()` and `report()`. Removed deprecated parameters are start and max_entries in `AuthorSearch()` and `AffiliationSearch()`. Removed deprecated attributes include only `ScopusSearch.EIDS`.

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2019-05-14

* Add support for proxies.
* In `AbstractRetrieval.correspondence`, turn values into proper strings.
* Fix bug when creating the config file.

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2019-05-09

* SerialTitle class to access the Serial Title API.
* In all search classes, add method `.get_results_size()` to return the number of matches.
* In all search classes, add boolean parameter `download` to not download the results (but get the number of matches anyways).
* In `AbstractRetrieval.authogroup`, rename field "city-group" to "city" and add new fields: "dptid", "postalcode", "addresspart".
* In `AbstractRetrieval.authorgroup`, fix bug with missing affiliation information.
* In all search classes, remove deprecated paramter `start`.

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2019-05-16

* Add parameter `subscriber` to `ScopusSearch` class to set request parameters to maximum values depending on view.
* Add support for cursor-navigation in searches.
* Add `__citation__` dunder.
* Allow for the REF view in `AbstractRetrieval` to obtain detailed information on referenced items.
* New properties for `AuthorRetrieval`: `historical_identifier` and `status`.
* Allow `ScopusSearch` to pass on kwds as query params.
* Deprecate `start` and `max_entries` parameters in `AffiliationSearch` and `AuthorSearch`.
* Deprecate `start` parameter in `ScopusSearch` class.
* Fix bug with `ContentAffiliationRetrieval.__str__`.
* Fix bugs in `AbstractRetrieval` related to missing information obtained from Scopus.

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2019-02-12

* Fix bug with empty value in `AbstractRetrieval.language`.
* Add matplotlib as requirement.