VOSviewer

VOSviewer: Free Tool for Constructing & Visualizing Bibliometric Networks

Construct, visualize, and explore bibliometric networks with VOSviewer, a free software tool offering maps and visual exploration of network data.

What is VOSviewer?

VOSviewer is a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks. It is freely available for downloading and using. VOSviewer can construct maps based on network data such as citation or co-citation networks, and explore them visually. Some of the key features of VOSviewer are:

- It can construct maps based on co-citation, bibliographic coupling, co-authorship or co-occurrence data.

- It offers text mining functionality that can be used to construct co-occurrence networks.

- It provides visualizations that show most relevant terms, publications, authors, or journals in a research field.

- It has functions to group related items into clusters and label these clusters.

- The visualizations and maps produced can be exported as images files.

- It runs on Windows, Linux and macOS systems.

In summary, VOSviewer is used by researchers world over to analyze scientific publications and explore the intellectual landscape around research topics through its advanced network visualization capabilities.

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