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Publications

This page provides a list of VOSviewer-related publications. A distinction is made between technical publications on VOSviewer and publications in which applications of VOSviewer are presented.

Technical publications on VOSviewer

Technical information on VOSviewer and on the VOS mapping and clustering techniques is provided in the following publications:

  • Perianes-Rodriguez, A., Waltman, L., & Van Eck, N.J. (2016). Constructing bibliometric networks: A comparison between full and fractional counting. Journal of Informetrics, 10(4), 1178-1195. (paper, preprint)
  • Van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2014). Visualizing bibliometric networks. In Y. Ding, R. Rousseau, & D. Wolfram (Eds.), Measuring scholarly impact: Methods and practice (pp. 285-320). Springer. (book chapter, preprint)
  • Waltman, L., & Van Eck, N.J. (2013). A smart local moving algorithm for large-scale modularity-based community detection. European Physical Journal B, 86(11), 471. (paper, preprint, supplementary material)
  • 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). 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)

Publications on applications of VOSviewer

VOSviewer has been used in tens of thousands of publications across a wide range of scientific disciplines. Publications that use or mention VOSviewer can be identified through this OpenAlex literature search.