VOSviewer
NTUST GITM | Da Vincier Lab
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Agenda
1. Introduction
2. Preparing Data for VOSviewer
3. Practice
What is VOSviewer?
VOSviewer is a software tool for
● Creating maps based on network data
To construct networks of scientific publications, scientific journals, researchers, research
organizations, countries, keywords, or terms Items in these networks can be connected
by co-authorship, cooccurrence, citation, bibliographic coupling, or co-citation links.
● Visualizing and exploring the maps
To visualize the network visualization, the overlay visualization, and the density visualization.
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Example for 3 Visualizations of a map
Network visualization Overlay visualization Density visualization
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Terminology:
A map normally includes only one type of item. So, between any pair of items there can be a link. A link is
a connection or a relation between two items and each link has a strength, represented by a positive
numerical value. For example
Publications Publications
The number of cited references
For Bibliographic coupling
A
Researchers The number of publications Researchers
two researchers have co-authored
B For Co-authorship
Keywords The number of publications in which Keywords
two terms occur together
For Co-occurrence
C
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6 Types of Analysis on VOSviewer
1. Co-Authorship Analysis: Maps collaboration networks by Authors,
Organizations, and Countries
2. Co-Occurrence Analysis: Examines relationships between
keywords or terms to reveals research themes by analyzing how
often terms appear together in publications.
3. Citation Analysis: Maps citation relationships to shows which
Papers/Authors/Journals are highly cited.
4. Bibliographic Coupling: Link documents that share common
references, indicating thematic similarity.
5. Co-Citation Analysis: Identifies papers, authors, or journals
frequently cited together to group related works to uncover
intellectual clusters.
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6. Co-occurrence: Text Data to discover new terms not captured by existing keywords
What is the difference between Bibliographic
data and Text data for creating a
term/keyword in Co-occurrence analysis? Aspect Text Data Bibliographic Data
Data Source Abstracts, Titles Predefined keywords from authors
Data Unstructured text analysis Structured academic literature analysis
Structure
Noise Level Higher (may include Lower (curated keywords)
irrelevant terms)
FYI: Text Data uses natural language processing
(NLP) to extract terms, ignoring common stopwords
(e.g., "the," "and")
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Installation
VOSviewer supports all operating systems > https://www.vosviewer.com/download
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Source of Data
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In this Case, the data will be used from WOS
Choose
> Export Records to Tab Delimited File
> Full Record and Cited References
Note: If you have data more than 500
records, need to repeatedly download.
For example, if you have 1000 records
you need to export data 2 times (2
files) and need to combine the file as a
one file.
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Let’s practice with
Co-occurrence analysis
(Bibliographic Data)
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