Research Impact

Vosviewer

The free tool developed by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) in Leiden, VosViewer, is the most popular tool for visualising co-author and co-citation networks. It 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. Download it for free and get the link to the manual here.

The database Dimensions, offers an integration with VOSViewer where you can view and download your co-author network map as well as your co-citation network map. Read more about this great feature here.

Bibliometrix (and Biblioshiny)

What is the function of the bibliometrix?

Bibliometrix supports researchers in the following three key phases of analysis:

• Data importing and conversion to R format;
• Bibliometric analysis of a publication dataset;
• Building matrices for co-citation, coupling, collaboration, and co-word analysis.

Biblioshiny

Biblioshiny is a shiny app providing a web interface for bibliometrix. The difference between the two packages is that bibliometrix's operating mode consists of code commands, while biblioshiny uses the shiny package to encapsulate the core code of bibliometrix and create a web-based online data analysis framework.

With biblioshiny, bibliometrix has become very easy to use even for those who have no coding skills. 

scite 

Open Knowledge Maps 

CitationGecko 

Scholarometer