Welcome to VOSviewer
VOSviewer 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 version 1.6.11
VOSviewer version 1.6.11 was released on April 3, 2019. This version solves the problems experienced by VOSviewer users when working with CSV files exported from Scopus.
VOSviewer version 1.6.10
VOSviewer version 1.6.10 was released on January 10, 2019. The most important new features are:
- Additional APIs. In addition to the Crossref API, it is now also possible to use the Europe PMC, Semantic Scholar, OCC, COCI, and Wikidata APIs as data sources for VOSviewer.
- Interactive querying of APIs. The Crossref and Europe PMC APIs can now be queried interactively in VOSviewer.
- Co-citation maps based on Dimensions data. Support has been added for creating co-citation maps based on Dimensions data.
- Additional reference manager file formats. In addition to the RIS format, VOSviewer now also supports the EndNote and RefWorks formats.
More information about the new features introduced in VOSviewer version 1.6.10 is available in this blog post.
VOSviewer version 1.6.9
VOSviewer version 1.6.9 was released on August 29, 2018. This version offers support for data exported from Dimensions. Data from Dimensions can be used to create co-authorship, citation, and bibliographic coupling maps. More information is available here.
VOSviewer version 1.6.8
VOSviewer version 1.6.8 was released on April 27, 2018. This version offers a number of smaller improvements. In particular, the algorithms for creating citation-based maps have been improved and support for creating maps of organizations has been extended.
VOSviewer web start
Click the button below to launch VOSviewer directly from this web page. This requires a system with Java support.
Next edition of CWTS VOSviewer course will take place in April 2020
On April 2 and 3, 2020, CWTS will organize the next edition of its VOSviewer course. Participants will learn about all ins and outs of VOSviewer. The course is taught by the VOSviewer developers and includes a lot of hands-on practice with the software.
VOSviewer case studies
The recently published AIDA booklet presents a number of interesting case studies in which VOSviewer is used.
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