CitNetExplorer: A new software tool for analyzing and visualizing citation networks

Eck, Nees Jan van; Waltman, Ludo

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2014.07.006

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“…It was also used here to identify potential 'landmark' publications and their bibliographic antecedents and descendants. For the visualization and analysis of these citation networks, the 'CitNetExplorer' programme was used (van Eck and Waltman 2014).…”

Section: Bibliometric and Bibliographic Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Systems thinking in public health: a bibliographic contribution to a meta-narrative review

Chughtai¹,

Blanchet

2017

Health Policy Plan.

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Background Research across the formal, natural and social sciences has greatly expanded our knowledge about complex systems in recent decades, informing a broadly inclusive, crossdisciplinary conceptual framework referred to as Systems Thinking (ST). Its use in public health is rapidly increasing, although there remains a poor understanding of how these ideas have been imported, adapted and elaborated by public health research networks worldwide. Method This review employed a mixed methods approach to narrate the development of ST in public health. Tabulated results from a literature search of the Web of Science Core Collection database were used to perform a bibliometric analysis and literature review. Annual publication counts and citation scores were used to analyse trends and identify popular and potential 'landmark' publications. Citation network and co-authorship network diagrams were analysed to identify groups of articles and researchers in various network roles. Results Our search string related to 763 publications. Filtering excluded 208 publications while citation tracing identified 2 texts. The final 557 publications were analysed, revealing a nearexponential growth in literature over recent years. Half of all articles were published after 2010 with almost a fifth (17.8%) published in 2014. Bibliographic analysis identified five distinct citation and co-authorship groups homophilous by common geography, research focus, inspiration or institutional affiliation. As a loosely related set of sciences, many public health researchers have developed different aspects of ST based on their underlying perspective. Early studies were inspired by Managementrelated literature, while later groups adopted a broadly inclusive understanding which incorporated related Systems sciences and approaches. Conclusion ST is an increasingly popular subject of discussion within public health although its understanding and approaches remain unclear. Briefly tracing the introduction and development of these ideas and author groups in public health literature may provide clarity and opportunities for further learning, research and development.

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Section: Bibliometric and Bibliographic Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Systems thinking in public health: a bibliographic contribution to a meta-narrative review

Chughtai¹,

Blanchet

2017

Health Policy Plan.

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“…Since we want to look at the influence of scholars, we are more interested in these direct citation networks than measures of similarity. There are several tools that do support visualizing direct citation networks, including Action Science Explorer (Dunne et al, 2012), the Network Workbench Tool (Borner et al, 2010), CitNetExplorer (van Eck andWaltman, 2014), Citeology (Matejka et al, 2012), and PivotPaths (Dork et al, 2012). While some of these tools offer the ability to view a particular paper, including author selection, they are designed to support analysis of a network at a particular point in time.…”

Section: Citation Network Visualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leveraging Citation Networks to Visualize Scholarly Influence Over Time

Portenoy

Hullman

West

2017

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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Assessing the influence of a scholar's work is an important task for funding organizations, academic departments, and researchers. Common methods, such as measures of citation counts, can ignore much of the nuance and multidimensionality of scholarly influence. We present an approach for generating dynamic visualizations of scholars' careers. This approach uses an animated node-link diagram showing the citation network accumulated around the researcher over the course of the career in concert with key indicators, highlighting influence both within and across fields. We developed our design in collaboration with one funding organization-the Pew Biomedical Scholars program-but the methods are generalizable to visualizations of scholarly influence. We applied the design method to the Microsoft Academic Graph, which includes more than 120 million publications. We validate our abstractions throughout the process through collaboration with the Pew Biomedical Scholars program officers and summative evaluations with their scholars.

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“…We used CitNetExplorer [24,25], a bibliometric tool to visualize the citation network of an ensemble of papers including their references. The tool builds on Eugene Garfield's work on algorithmic historiography and the corresponding program HistCite (the program is no longer in active development or officially supported).…”

Section: Cited References Analysismentioning

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The Role of Climate in the Collapse of the Maya Civilization: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Discourse

Marx

Haunschild

Bornmann

2017

Climate

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This bibliometric analysis deals with research on the collapse of the Maya civilization-a research topic with a long-lasting history, which has been boosted significantly by recent paleoclimatic research. The study is based on a publication set of 433 papers published between 1923 and 2016. The publications covered by the Web of Science (WoS) show a significant increase since 1990, reaching about 30 papers per year at present. The results show that the current discourse on the collapse of the Maya civilization is focused on the role of climate as a major factor for the demise of this ancient civilization. The bibliometric analyses also reveal that (1) paleoclimatic records become numerous and are increasingly better dated; (2) the explanatory power of the records has been significantly increased by analyzing samples from regions closer to the relevant Maya sites; and (3) interdisciplinary cooperation of the humanities (archeology, anthropology, history) with natural sciences disciplines (geoscience, ecology, paleoclimatology, meteorology) seems to be highly promising. The collapse of the Maya civilization is a good example of how natural sciences entered research in the humanities and social sciences (anthropology, archeology, history) and boosted research (and solutions) around long-discussed, but unsolved questions.

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CitNetExplorer: A new software tool for analyzing and visualizing citation networks

Cited by 524 publications

References 26 publications

Systems thinking in public health: a bibliographic contribution to a meta-narrative review

Systems thinking in public health: a bibliographic contribution to a meta-narrative review

Leveraging Citation Networks to Visualize Scholarly Influence Over Time

The Role of Climate in the Collapse of the Maya Civilization: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Discourse

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