vosviewer is a free software for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks and can work with data from several bibliographic databases including web of science, scopus, dimensions, and pubmed. it can ingest reference manager files (i.e., bibtex, endnote, and refworks files). vosviewer can download data through an api (i.e., crossref api, openalex api, europe pmc api, and several others).
vosviewer websitevosviewer is a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks. these networks may for instance include journals, researchers, or individual publications, and they can be constructed based on citation, bibliographic coupling, co-citation, or co-authorship relations. vosviewer also offers text mining functionality that can be used to construct and visualize co-occurrence networks of important terms extracted from a body of scientific literature.
vosviewer manualthe vosviewer manual provides detailed and up-to-date information on the functionality of vosviewer
types of visualization
bibliographic coupling networks: depicting similarities between publications based on shared references.
citation analysis: analyzing the relationships among publications by identifying the most influential publications in a research field.
co-authorship networks: visualizing collaboration patterns between authors.
co-citation networks: showing how frequently two publications are cited together.
co-occurrence networks: illustrating relationships between keywords or topics.
