Visual exploration of scientific literature using VOSviewer and CitNetExplorer

It is essential for researchers to have an up-to-date understanding of the literature in their research field. However, keeping up with all relevant literature is highly time consuming. Bibliometric visualizations can support this task. These visualizations provide intuitive overviews of the literature in a research field, enabling researchers to obtain a better understanding of the structure and development of a field and to get an impression of the most significant contributions made in the field. In this talk, I will give an introduction to two software tools for bibliometric visualization: VOSviewer (www.vosviewer.com) and CitNetExplorer (www.citnetexplorer.nl). VOSviewer is a popular tool for visualizing bibliometric networks of publications, authors, journals, and keywords. CitNetExplorer is a tool for the visualization and analysis of citation networks of scientific publications. I will pay special attention to applications of VOSviewer and CitNetExplorer in the social sciences and humanities, focusing in particular on the use of advanced text mining, network analysis, and visualization techniques for analyzing large amounts of textual data.
Dr. Nees Jan van Eck is senior researcher at the Centre for Science and
Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is doing research in the field of bibliometrics and scientometrics. His research focuses on the development of visualization tools and algorithms, mainly for analyzing the structure and development of science. Nees Jan is the main developer of VOSviewer and CitNetExplorer, two well-known software tools for visualizing bibliometric data. The VOSviewer software is frequently used in bibliometric studies. More than 1000 publications have appeared in international scientific journals in which the software is employed. In addition to his work on bibliometric visualization, Nees Jan also focuses on the study of bibliometric data sources and the analysis of the full text of scientific publications. Nees Jan has published more than 50 publications. He is editor brief communications of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, he serves in the editorial boards of Journal of Data and Information Science and Quantitative Science Studies, and he is an elected board member of the International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics. Nees Jan has been involved in various commercial bibliometric research projects and training courses in which the VOSviewer software plays a key role. He is also the head of ICT of CWTS, making him responsible for the entire data infrastructure of the center

[@lehargrace6286]

the Vosviewer I downloaded does not have the same type of search option which version could this one be, please. also how did he switch from vosviewer to citnet explorer

[@smiles7546]

Thank you for this great video.

[@jacopotodini8447]

Hi, thank you very much for the video! Very interesting and useful. I wanted to ask you one thing: is it possible, by doing the co-occurence and author keywords analysis, to then trace back to the source of the displayed data?
In other words, once I have done the analysis and displayed the graph as a result of the co-occurrence (author keywords), I would like to "click" on the dot in the graph and see what papers make up that dot.
I don't know if I explained myself well, but I hope you can still help me out! thank you very much for the video and again congratulations.

[@neesjanvaneck]

Hi @jacopotodini8447, I'm afraid there is no easy way to get this information. There are two options:
1. In the final step of the 'Create Map' wizard, a table is presented listing the keywords that will be included in your keyword co-occurrence map. It is possible to right-click on this table. A context menu will then appear that allows you to export the list of keywords and the relations between the keywords and the underlying documents. Using this information you can then identify the documents in which a particular keyword occurs.
2. You can open your bibliographic file in a text editor or a spreadsheet program and then search for the keywords that you are interested in.

[@anwarkhanmarwat]

Thank you for the video. I have a merged data set from Scopus and WOS data in RIS format. However, while attempting bib in VOSveiwer, I did not see the Bib coupling option. However, while performing separate file of scopus or WOS, there are several options of bib analysis including bib coupling, cowords, co-citation etc. How I can perform Bib coupling and Cocitation in VOSviewer on a data set merged from Scopus and WOS?

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