Manipulating a List in a Single Excel Cell

I would do this

library(stringr)

single_cell <- "Albuquerque (1992) Stat Med, Lasagna (1993) J Cran, Receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) plots: a tool in medicine (1993) Clin Chem"

str_extract_all(single_cell, "(?<=\\d{4}\\)\\s).+?(?=(,|$))")
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "Stat Med"  "J Cran"    "Clin Chem"
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