13. List of Freely Available Tools for Studying Scholarly Publications

Selection criteria: Freely available; Applicable to the study of scholarly publications.

Recommendations are welcome. Please contact me at chaomei.chen@drexel.edu.

BibExcel

https://bibliometrie.univie.ac.at/bibexcel/

BibExcel is designed to assist a user in analysing bibliographic data, or any data of a textual nature formatted in a similar manner. This tool enables the generation of data files that can be imported to Excel, or any program that further processes or visualises tabbed data records.

CiteSpace

http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/citespace/

CiteSpace is a freely available Java application for visualizing and analyzing trends and patterns in scientific literature. It is designed as a tool for progressive knowledge domain visualization (Chen, 2004). It focuses on finding critical points in the development of a field or a domain, especially intellectual turning points and pivotal points.

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/

HistCite

http://interest.science.thomsonreuters.com/forms/HistCite/

A tool to generate historiographic diagrams of direct citations.

IDR Users Maps

http://idr.gatech.edu/usermapsdetail.php?id=61

"a novel approach to visually locate bodies of research within the sciences, both at each moment of time and dynamically."

Jigsaw

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/jigsaw/

A visual analytics system to help analysts and researchers better explore, analyze, and make sense of such document collections.

Microsoft Academic Research

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/

Pajek

http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/

Pajek is a Windows program for analysis and visualization of large networks with thousands or even millions of nodes.

Publish or Perish

http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm

"designed to help individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage."

SCI2

https://sci2.cns.iu.edu/user/index.php

The Science of Science (Sci²) Tool is a modular toolset specifically designed for the study of science. It supports the temporal, geospatial, topical, and network analysis and visualization of scholarly datasets at the micro (individual), meso (local), and macro (global) levels.

SCImago

http://www.scimagojr.com/

The Shape of Science is a new graphical interface designed to access the bibliometric indicators database of the SCImago Journal & Country Rank portal (based on 2012 data).

Smart Local Moving (SLM) Algorithm

http://www.ludowaltman.nl/slm/

The smart local moving (SLM) algorithm is an algorithm for community detection (or clustering) in large networks. The details of the algorithm are documented in a paper (Waltman & Van Eck, 2013).

Software and Data of Leydesdorff

http://www.leydesdorff.net/software.htm

Loet Leydesdorff's series of tools for analyzing publications and patents.

VOSViewer

http://www.vosviewer.com/Home

VOSviewer is a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks.

Other Resources

Harinarayana, N. S. (2015) Data sources and software tools for bibliometric studies.

http://www.kdnuggets.com/software/visualization.html

A list of relevant software (in Chinese by 魏瑞斌)