Package: birddog
Title: Sniffing Emergence and Trajectories in Academic Papers and
        Patents
Version: 1.0.4
Authors@R: c( person( given = c("Roney", "Fraga"), family = "Souza", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"), email = "roneyfraga@gmail.com", comment = c(ORCID = "orcid.org/0000-0001-5750-489X")), person( given = c("Luis", "Felipe"), family = "de Souza Rodrigues", role = "ctb", email = "lfsouza25@gmail.com"))
Description: Provides a unified set of methods to detect scientific emergence
    and technological trajectories in academic papers and patents. The package
    combines citation network analysis with community detection and attribute
    extraction, also applying natural language processing (NLP) and structural
    topic modeling (STM) to uncover the contents of research communities. It
    implements metrics and visualizations of community trajectories, including
    novelty indicators, citation cycle time, and main path analysis, allowing
    researchers to map and interpret the dynamics of emerging knowledge fields.
    Applications of the method include: Souza et al. (2022)
    <doi:10.1002/bbb.2441>, Souza et al. (2022)
    <doi:10.14211/ibjesb.e1742>, Matos et al. (2023)
    <doi:10.1007/s43938-023-00036-3>, Maria et al. (2023)
    <doi:10.3390/su15020967>, Biazatti et al. (2024)
    <doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101074>, Felizardo et al. (2025)
    <doi:10.1007/s12649-025-03136-z>, and Miranda et al. (2025)
    <doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.01.089>.
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Imports: dplyr, ggraph, ggplot2, plotly, igraph, tidygraph, tidyr,
        tibble, Matrix, purrr, readr, rlang, glue, openalexR,
        RColorBrewer, scales, stringr
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Suggests: benchmarkme, knitr, rmarkdown, cli, ggHoriPlot, ggrepel,
        ggthemes, janitor, gt, testthat (>= 3.0.0), tictoc, viridis,
        zoo, stm, tidytext, udpipe
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
URL: http://roneyfraga.com/birddog/,
        https://github.com/roneyfraga/birddog
BugReports: https://github.com/roneyfraga/birddog/issues
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-04-04 18:40:17 UTC; roney
Author: Roney Fraga Souza [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5750-489X>),
  Luis Felipe de Souza Rodrigues [ctb]
Maintainer: Roney Fraga Souza <roneyfraga@gmail.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-04-04 19:00:03 UTC
Built: R 4.5.2; ; 2026-04-08 02:35:03 UTC; unix
