VOSviewer

Publications

Technical information about VOSviewer and the VOS mapping and clustering techniques can be found in the following publications:

Van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2011). Text mining and visualization using VOSviewer. ISSI Newsletter, 7(3), 50-54. (paper, preprint, supplementary material)
Van Eck, N.J., Waltman, L., Dekker, R., & Van den Berg, J. (2010). A comparison of two techniques for bibliometric mapping: Multidimensional scaling and VOS. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(12), 2405-2416. (paper, preprint, supplementary material)
Waltman, L., Van Eck, N.J., & Noyons, E.C.M. (2010). A unified approach to mapping and clustering of bibliometric networks. Journal of Informetrics, 4(4), 629-635. (paper, preprint, supplementary material)
Van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2010). Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping. Scientometrics, 84(2), 523-538. (paper, preprint, supplementary material)
Van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2009). VOSviewer: A computer program for bibliometric mapping. In B. Larsen, & J. Leta (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (pp. 886-897). (preprint)
Van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2009). How to normalize cooccurrence data? An analysis of some well-known similarity measures. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(8), 1635-1651. (paper, preprint)
Van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2007). VOS: a new method for visualizing similarities between objects. In H.-J. Lenz, & R. Decker (Eds.), Advances in Data Analysis: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (pp. 299-306). Springer. (paper, preprint)

Applications of VOSviewer and the VOS mapping and clustering techniques can be found in the following publications:

Rafols, I., Leydesdorff, L., O'Hare, A., Nightingale, P., & Stirling, A. (in press). How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinarity. The case of innovation studies in business and management. Research Policy. (preprint)
Leydesdorff, L., & Rafols, I. (in press). Interactive overlays: A new method for generating global journal maps from Web-of-Science data. Journal of Informetrics. (preprint)
Su, H.-N. (in press). Visualization of global science and technology policy research structure. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. (paper)
Yan, E., Ding, Y., & Jacob, E.K. (2012). Overlaying communities and topics: An analysis on publication networks. Scientometrics, 90(2), 499-513. (paper)
Linton, J. (2011). What does journal fit and focus look like: A visual representation. Technovation, 31(12), 613-614. (paper)
Leydesdorff, L., Hammarfelt, B., & Akdag Salah, A.A. (2011). The structure of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index: A mapping on the basis of aggregated citations among 1,157 journals. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(12), 2414-2426. (paper, preprint)
Waltman, L., Yan, E., & Van Eck, N.J. (2011). A recursive field-normalized bibliometric performance indicator: An application to the field of library and information science. Scientometrics, 89(1), 301-314. (paper, preprint)
Heersmink, R., Van den Hoven, J., Van Eck, N.J., & Van den Berg, J. (2011). Bibliometric mapping of computer and information ethics. Ethics and Information Technology, 13(3), 241-249. (paper, preprint)
Cobo, M.J., López-Herrera, A.G., Herrera-Viedma, E., & Herrera, F. (2011). Science mapping software tools: Review, analysis, and cooperative study among tools. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(7), 1382-1402. (paper)
Zuccala, A., & Van Eck, N.J. (2011). Poverty research in a development policy context. Development Policy Review, 29(3), 311-330. (paper, preprint)
Lee, P.-C., & Su, H.-N. (2011). Quantitative mapping of scientific research - The case of electrical conducting polymer nanocomposite. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 78(1), 132-151. (paper)
Waaijer, C.J.F., Van Bochove, C.A., & Van Eck, N.J. (2011). On the map: Nature and Science editorials. Scientometrics, 86(1), 99-112. (paper, preprint, supplementary material)
Lu, K., & Wolfram, D. (2010). Geographic characteristics of the growth of informetrics literature 1987-2008. Journal of Informetrics, 4(4), 591-601. (paper)
Tijssen, R.J.W. (2010). Discarding the 'basic science/applied science' dichotomy: A knowledge utilization triangle classification system of research journals. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(9), 1842-1852. (paper, preprint, supplementary material)
Su, H.-N., & Lee, P.-C. (2010). Mapping knowledge structure by keyword co-occurrence: a first look at journal papers in Technology Foresight. Scientometrics, 85(1), 65-79. (paper)
Waaijer, C.J.F., Van Bochove, C.A., & Van Eck, N.J. (2010). Journal Editorials give indication of driving science issues. Nature, 463(7278), 157. Correspondence. (paper, supplementary material)
Van Eck, N.J., Waltman, L., Noyons, E.C.M., & Buter, R.K. (2010). Automatic term identification for bibliometric mapping. Scientometrics, 82(3), 581-596. (paper, preprint, supplementary material)
Van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2007). Bibliometric mapping of the computational intelligence field. International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, 15(5), 625-645. (paper, preprint, supplementary material)
Van Eck, N.J., Waltman, L., Van den Berg, J., & Kaymak, U. (2006). Visualizing the computational intelligence field. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 1(4), 6-10. (paper, supplementary material)
Van Eck, N.J., Waltman, L., Van den Berg, J., & Kaymak, U. (2006). Visualizing the WCCI 2006 knowledge domain. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (pp. 7862-7869). IEEE Press. (paper, supplementary material)

Presentations

The following presentations have been given about VOSviewer and the VOS mapping and clustering techniques:

September 14, 2011. Text mining and visualization using VOSviewer. Presentation at the 1st Global TechMining Conference in Atlanta, USA. (slides)
March 17, 2011 and September 23, 2010. Visualization of bibliometric networks using VOSviewer. Lecture at the CWTS Course 'Measuring Science' in Leiden, The Netherlands. (slides)
September 9, 2010. A unified approach to mapping and clustering of bibliometric networks. Presentation at the 11th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators in Leiden, The Netherlands. (slides)
October 8, 2009. VOSviewer: A computer program for bibliometric mapping. Presentation at the workshop Modelling Science: Understanding, Forecasting, and Communicating the Science System in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (slides)
July 17, 2009. VOSviewer: A computer program for bibliometric mapping. Presentation at the 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (slides)
September 18, 2008. An experimental comparison of bibliometric mapping techniques. Presentation at the 10th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators in Vienna, Austria. (slides)
June 26, 2007. Applying ideas from homogeneity analysis to visualize similarity data. Presentation at the conference Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. (slides)
June 10, 2006. A comparison of knowledge domain visualization approaches. Poster presentation at the conference 50 Years of Econometrics in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. (poster)
June 10, 2006. VOS: A new method for visualizing similarities between objects. Poster presentation at the conference 50 Years of Econometrics in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. (poster)
March 9, 2006. A new method for visualizing associations between concepts. Presentation at the 30th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society in Berlin, Germany. (slides)