Network Analysis Interface for Literature Studies
Network Analysis Interface for Literature Studies
by Juho Salminen, Antti Knutas and Arash Hajikhani
at LUT University
This system is no longer under active development and the developers have moved on to new research projects. Since Web of Science keeps changing their output format and R library function call syntaxes vary with new versions, this software package might not work for you out of the box. The system is open source and if you’d like to fix some aspects of it, we accept pull requests. If you are looking for something simple to use, consider looking at actively maintained systems, such as Bibliometrix.
This site shares our experiments and tools for performing Social Network Analysis (SNA) on citation data. As the amount of publications grows on any given field, automatic tools for this sort of analysis are becoming increasingly important prior to starting research on new fields.
SNA is an interesting way for researchers to map large datasets and get insights from new angles. The steps for downloading data from Web of Knowledge and using our tools to process it are detailed below (though do see the disclaimer above).
The project files are available as open source here in our Github repository. If you link or refer to us, please link to our project page.
We are working on an alternative, R package version for use by R programmers.
The basic design and bibliometric principles of the system have been published in a research article:
Antti Knutas, Arash Hajikhani, Juho Salminen, Jouni Ikonen, and Jari Porras. 2015. Cloud-Based Bibliometric Analysis Service for Systematic Mapping Studies. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech '15). DOI: 10.1145/2812428.2812442
A preprint version of the article is available for download as PDF. The official version is now available at the ACM Digital Library.
If you use the software in your scientific work, please consider citing us.
These scripts can be used to complete an exploratory literature review
using data downloaded from Web of Knowledge. You can follow the steps below or view a brief video tutorial on how to get started.
The script also creates node and edge tables for author and citation
networks that can be loaded to Gephi for further exploration.
See further instructions for manual usage at https://sites.google.com/site/bibliometricdatavisualization/instructions or follow the video tutorial.
For now the project verifiedly works on R version 3.3.3 and RStudio 1.0.136.
You need the following R packages (tested 13.3.2017): splitstackshape, reshape, plyr, stringr, tm, SnowballC, lda, LDAvis, igraph, ggplot2 (also “knitr” separately installed if not using RStudio)
For the LDA topic modeling feature you need the following packages: stm, tm, topicmodels, dplyr, stringi
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See LICENSE file for more information.
What does it mean? We are free as in freedom. You may run the software as you wish, for any purpose; you are free to study how the program works, and change it as you wish; you are free to redistribute copies; and you are free to distribute copies of modified versions to others. You may not distribute this software in a non-free manner or add additional restrictions. The only limitations are that you have to follow the free software license, retain the original copyright notices and acknowledgement texts in the program output (section 7b). See links above for more information. If you edit and improve the software, we would love to hear back from you.