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Below the most recent version of VOSviewer can be downloaded. The software can be used freely for any purpose.

VOSviewer version 1.6.16, released on November 25, 2020, is available for download.

On Mac OS X systems, you may experience security issues. Information on how to handle these issues is available here.

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To download and run VOSviewer, take the following steps:

Download VOSviewer from this web page.
Create a new folder and unpack the downloaded ZIP file in this folder.
On Microsoft Windows systems, run the VOSviewer Windows application. On Mac OS X systems, run the VOSviewer OS X application. On other systems, run the VOSviewer JAR file.

To run VOSviewer, Java version 8 or higher needs to be installed on your system. If Java is not installed on your system, you can obtain it here.

Instead of downloading VOSviewer, you can also launch VOSviewer directly from this web page. This requires Java to be installed on your system.

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