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If you did so, we strongly recommend deleting the downloaded file immediately, running a full antivirus scan, and taking any additional security precautions in accordance with your organization's security policy.</p> 471 <p style="color: #ff6501; text-align: justify;">The incident was detected quickly by the Security Operations Centre at Leiden University, and immediate mitigation measures were taken to contain the incident and limit its potential impact. A detailed investigation is currently ongoing in collaboration with cybersecurity partners, including SURFcert. Users who will be identified as downloaders or users of the malicious version will be notified directly.</p> 472 <p style="color: #ff6501; text-align: justify;">We will provide further updates as soon as more information becomes available. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.</p> 473 </div> 474 </div> 475 </div> 476 </div> 477 </div> 478 479 <div class="page "> 480 <div class="row full"> 481 <div class="setcontainer setstyle11"> 482 <div class="set " data-style="setstyle11" data-set="1"> 483 484 <div class="element " data-element="Introduction"> 485 <h1 class="head1"> 486 Welcome to VOSviewer</h1> 487 <h2 class="head2"> 488 VOSviewer is a software tool for constructing and visualizing 489 bibliometric networks. These networks may for instance include journals, 490 researchers, or individual publications, and they can be constructed 491 based on citation, bibliographic coupling, co-citation, or co-authorship 492 relations. VOSviewer also offers text mining functionality that can be 493 used to construct and visualize co-occurrence networks of important 494 terms extracted from a body of scientific literature.</h2> 495 496 </div> 497 </div> 498 </div> 499 </div> 500 <div class="row "> 501 <div class="setcontainer setstyle13 grey"> 502 <div class="set " data-style="setstyle13 grey" data-set="48"> 503 <a class="anchortarget" data-anchortarget="information-left" 504 name="Information (left)"></a> 505 <div class="element " data-element="(element)"> 506 <h3 class="head3"> 507 VOSviewer version 1.6.21</h3> 508 <p> 509 VOSviewer version 1.6.21 was released on June 12, 2026. This version 510 offers major improvements for querying OpenAlex data, including more 511 robust error handling, support for API key authentication, and advanced 512 search functionality across titles, abstracts, and full texts. Keyword 513 co-occurrence maps based on OpenAlex data have been added. Concept 514 co-occurrence maps based on OpenAlex data have been replaced by topic 515 co-occurrence maps. Furthermore, querying of Europe PMC data has been 516 enhanced with advanced search capabilities. Finally, Mac compatibility 517 has been improved through native support for Apple Silicon Macs and 518 better detection of installed Java distributions.</p> 519 <p style="padding-top: 10px"> 520 <a class="linklaunch" href="download.html">Download VOSviewer</a> 521 </p> 522 <hr class="white"> 523 <!-- 524<p> 525 <b>May 14, 2026</b>. There are currently issues with VOSviewer's support for the API of OpenAlex. These issues will be fixed in an upcoming update of VOSviewer, which we expect to release soon.</p> 526<hr class="white" /> 527//--> 528 <h3 class="head3"> 529 VOSviewer version 1.6.20</h3> 530 <p> 531 VOSviewer version 1.6.20 was released on October 31, 2023. This version 532 offers improved features for creating maps based on data downloaded 533 through APIs. It also supports creating maps based on data exported from 534 Scopus in the new Scopus file format.</p> 535 <hr class="white"> 536 <h3 class="head3"> 537 VOSviewer version 1.6.19</h3> 538 <p> 539 VOSviewer version 1.6.19 was released on January 23, 2023. This version 540 offers a number of improvements in VOSviewer's support for creating maps 541 based on OpenAlex data. It also fixes some problems in creating maps 542 based on Web of Science data.</p> 543 <hr class="white"> 544 <h3 class="head3"> 545 VOSviewer version 1.6.18</h3> 546 <p> 547 VOSviewer version 1.6.18 was released on January 24, 2022. The following 548 features have been added:</p> 549 <ul> 550 <li> 551 Creating maps based on OpenAlex data. <a href="https://openalex.org" 552 target="_blank">OpenAlex</a> is a new open data source released 553 recently by <a href="https://blog.ourresearch.org/openalex-launch/" 554 target="_blank">
554OurResearch</a>.</li> 555 <li> 556 Querying Europe PMC using full-text search and creating 557 citation-based maps based on Europe PMC data.</li> 558 <li> 559 Creating co-authorship and citation-based maps of organizations 560 based on Semantic Scholar data.</li> 561 <li> 562 Querying Crossref using <a 563 href="https://www.crossref.org/blog/a-ror-some-update-to-our-api/" 564 target="_blank">ROR (Research Organization Registry) IDs</a>. 565 </li> 566 </ul> 567 <p> 568 Microsoft Academic has been <a 569 href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/academic/articles/microsoft-academic-to-expand-horizons-with-community-driven-approach/" 570 target="_blank">discontinued</a> and is therefore no longer 571 supported by VOSviewer.</p> 572 <hr class="white"> 573 <h3 class="head3"> 574 VOSviewer version 1.6.17</h3> 575 <p> 576 VOSviewer version 1.6.17 was released on July 22, 2021. The following 577 features have been added:</p> 578 <ul> 579 <li> 580 Support has been added for sharing maps online. Maps will be 581 visualized using the VOSviewer Online tool <a 582 href="https://leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/vosviewer-goes-online-part-1" 583 target="_blank">released last week</a>.</li> 584 <li> 585 Support has been added for creating maps based on files exported 586 from the <a href="https://www.lens.org" target="_blank">Lens</a>. 587 </li> 588 <li> 589 Support has been added for VOSviewer JSON files, a new file type 590 that provides an alternative for VOSviewer map and network files. 591 </li> 592 </ul> 593 <p> 594 More information can be found in <a 595 href="https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/vosviewer-goes-online-part-2" 596 target="_blank">this blog post</a>.</p> 597 <!-- 598<hr class="white" /> 599<h3 class="head3"> 600 VOSviewer version 1.6.16</h3> 601<p> 602 VOSviewer version 1.6.16 was released on November 25, 2020. This version fixes some problems in VOSviewer's functionality for working with data from Dimensions and Semantic Scholar. It also offers new functionality for querying the Microsoft Academic API using author, affiliation, and journal IDs and for creating term co-occurrence maps based on Semantic Scholar data.</p> 603<hr class="white" /> 604<h3 class="head3"> 605 VOSviewer version 1.6.15</h3> 606<p> 607 VOSviewer version 1.6.15 was released on April 1, 2020. This version fixes some problems in VOSviewer's functionality for querying the API of Microsoft Academic. It also offers a few new options for querying the Microsoft Academic API, including options for searching in abstracts and for filtering out duplicate documents and non-scientific content.</p> 608<hr class="white" /> 609<h3 class="head3"> 610 VOSviewer version 1.6.14</h3> 611<p> 612 VOSviewer version 1.6.14 was released on January 27, 2020. This version offers improved support for querying APIs. DOI files provide increased flexibility and can now also be used to query the Microsoft Academic API. The title search option for querying the Crossref API has been repaired. Also, security issues on Mac systems have been fixed.</p> 613<hr class="white" /> 614<h3 class="head3"> 615 Citation and bibliographic coupling maps based on Microsoft Academic data</h3> 616<p> 617 February 29, 2020. A bug has been discovered in VOSviewer's functionality for creating citation and bibliographic coupling maps based on Microsoft Academic data. This bug will be fixed in an update of VOSviewer that we expect to be released soon. In the meantime, we recommend not to use VOSviewer's functionality for creating citation and bibliographic coupling maps based on Microsoft Academic data.</p> 618<hr class="white" /> 619<h3 class="head3"> 620 Problem with API of Crossref</h3> 621<p> 622 November 26, 2019. There is a problem with VOSviewer's support for the API of Crossref.�<a href="https://status.crossref.org/incidents/4y45gj63jsp4" target="_blank">Searching in titles of documents</a> is not possible at the moment.</p> 623<hr class="white" /> 624<h3 class="head3"> 625 Problems with APIs of Crossref and Microsoft Academic</h3> 626<p> 627 October 16, 2019. There are problems with VOSviewer's support for the APIs of Crossref and Microsoft Academic. In the case of the Crossref API, <a href="https://status.crossref.org/incidents/4y45gj63jsp4" target="_blank">searching in titles of documents</a> is not possible at the moment. The Microsoft Academic API doesn't work at all. We hope these problems will be fixed soon.</p> 628<hr class="white" /> 629<h3 class="head3"> 630 Note for Windows users of VOSviewer</h3> 631<p> 632 August 13, 2018. On many Windows systems, the Windows Defender software currently indicates that the Windows version of VOSviewer causes a security threat. This warning is incorrect. We are in contact with Microsoft's Windows Defender team to solve this problem. As a temporary solution, you may use the <a href="download">VOSviewer version for other systems</a>.</p> 633<hr class="white" /> 634<h3 class="head3"> 635 Problems with Scopus data</h3> 636<p> 637 May 29, 2018. Many users of VOSviewer have reported problems in working with CSV files exported from Scopus. These problems are caused by bugs in the export functionality of Scopus. The Scopus team is working on fixing these bugs. In the meantime, we recommend to make use of other data sources, such as Web of Science, PubMed, or Crossref.</p> 638<hr class="white" /> 639<h3 class="head3"> 640 Problems with Scopus data</h3> 641<p> 642 March 22, 2019. Many users of VOSviewer have reported problems in working with CSV files exported from Scopus. These problems are caused by issues in the export functionality of Scopus. We are working together with the Scopus team to fix these issues.</p> 643<hr class="white" /> 644<h3 class="head3"> 645 VOSviewer version 1.6.13</h3> 646<p> 647 VOSviewer version 1.6.13 was released on September 16, 2019. This version provides a few minor bug fixes.</p> 648<hr class="white" /> 649<h3 class="head3"> 650 VOSviewer version 1.6.12</h3> 651<p> 652 VOSviewer version 1.6.12 was released on August 31, 2019. This version supports the Microsoft Academic API as a new data source for VOSviewer.</p> 653<hr class="white" /> 654<h3 class="head3"> 655 VOSviewer version 1.6.11</h3> 656<p> 657 VOSviewer version 1.6.11 was released on April 3, 2019. This version solves the problems experienced by VOSviewer users when working with CSV files exported from Scopus.</p> 658 659<hr class="white" /> 660<h3 class="head3"> 661 VOSviewer version 1.6.10</h3> 662<p> 663 VOSviewer version 1.6.10 was released on January 10, 2019. The most important new features are:</p> 664<ul> 665 <li> 666 <strong>Additional APIs.</strong> In addition to the Crossref API, it is now also possible to use the Europe PMC, Semantic Scholar, OCC, COCI, and Wikidata APIs as data sources for VOSviewer.</li> 667 <li> 668 <strong>Interactive querying of APIs.</strong> The Crossref and Europe PMC APIs can now be queried interactively in VOSviewer.</li> 669 <li> 670 <strong>Co-citation maps based on Dimensions data.</strong> Support has been added for creating co-citation maps based on Dimensions data.</li> 671 <li> 672 <strong>Additional reference manager file formats.</strong> In addition to the RIS format, VOSviewer now also supports the EndNote and RefWorks formats.</li> 673</ul> 674<p> 675 More information about the new features introduced in VOSviewer version 1.6.10 is available in this <a href="https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-r2v284" target="_blank">blog post</a>.</p> 676<hr class="white" /> 677<h3 class="head3"> 678 VOSviewer version 1.6.9</h3> 679<p> 680 VOSviewer version 1.6.9 was released on August 29, 2018. This version offers support for data exported from <a href="https://www.dimensions.ai" target="_blank">Dimensions</a>. Data from Dimensions can be used to create co-authorship, citation, and bibliographic coupling maps. More information is available <a href="https://www.dimensions.ai/2018/08/discovering-relationships-between-researchers-and-publications-using-dimensions-data-just-got-a-lot-more-colorful/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> 681<hr class="white" /> 682<h3 class="head3"> 683 VOSviewer version 1.6.8</h3> 684<p> 685 VOSviewer version 1.6.8 was released on April 27, 2018. This version offers a number of smaller improvements. In particular, the algorithms for creating citation-based maps have been improved and support for creating maps of organizations has been extended.</p> 686 687<hr class="white" /> 688<h3 class="head3"> 689 VOSviewer version 1.6.7</h3> 690<p> 691 VOSviewer version 1.6.7 was released on February 16, 2018. Some of the improvements introduced in this version are listed below:</p> 692<ul> 693 <li> 694 <strong>New colors.</strong> The network, overlay, and density visualizations have new color schemes. A number of different c
694olor schemes are provided in the overlay and density visualizations. More information is available <a href="https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-r2s274&title=farewell-rainbow-new-colors-in-vosviewer" target="_blank">here</a>.</li> 695 <li> 696 <strong>Improved author maps.</strong> Hyperauthorship publications can be filtered out. First names of authors can be included in a map or they can be reduced to initials.</li> 697 <li> 698 <strong>Improved term maps.</strong> Structured abstract labels can be removed. Very general adjectives are ignored.</li> 699</ul> 700 701<hr class="white" /> 702<h3 class="head3"> 703 VOSviewer version 1.6.6</h3> 704<p> 705 VOSviewer version 1.6.6 was released on October 23, 2017. Some of the new features and improvements are listed below:</p> 706<ul> 707 <li> 708 <strong>Support for Crossref data.</strong> Functionality has been added for creating co-authorship, citation, and term co-occurrence maps based on Crossref data. Data can be downloaded directly through the Crossref API. More information is available <a href="https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-r2r294" target="_blank">here</a>.</li> 709 <li> 710 <strong>Improved visualizations.</strong> Improvements have been made to the visualizations. Highlighting of items has been improved.</li> 711 <li> 712 <strong>Improved support for Chinese characters.</strong> When a map includes Chinese (or Japanese or Korean) characters, this is automatically recognized and the characters are visualized correctly.</li> 713 <li> 714 <strong>Improved user interface.</strong> A number of user interface improvements have been made.</li> 715</ul> 716 717<p style="padding-top: 10px"> 718 <a class="linklaunch" href="download">Download VOSviewer</a></p> 719<hr class="white" /> 720<h3 class="head3"> 721 VOSviewer version 1.6.5</h3> 722<p> 723 VOSviewer version 1.6.5 was released on September 28, 2016. Some of the improvements introduced in this version are listed below:</p> 724<ul> 725 <li> 726 <strong>Overlay visualizations.</strong> These popular visualizations have been made more prominently visible.</li> 727 <li> 728 <strong>Maps based on bibliographic data.</strong> Functionality for creating maps based on bibliographic data has been improved. Items can be filtered based on citation counts, and various types of overlay visualizations are supported.</li> 729 <li> 730 <strong>Command line parameters.</strong> Many new command line parameters have been added to support the fully automatic production of maps.</li> 731 <li> 732 <strong>Improved user interface.</strong> By reorganizing some user interface elements, more space has been made available for showing the visualizations.</li> 733</ul> 734<p> 735 Additional information on this new version of VOSviewer is available <a href="https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-q2x2b4" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> 736<p style="padding-top: 10px"> 737 <a class="linklaunch" href="download">Download VOSviewer</a></p> 738<hr class="white" /> 739<h3 class="head3"> 740 VOSviewer version 1.6.4</h3> 741<p> 742 VOSviewer version 1.6.4 was released on April 7, 2016. This version includes the following new features and improvements:</p> 743<ul> 744 <li> 745 <strong>Citation networks.</strong> Functionality has been added for creating direct citation networks based on Web of Science and Scopus files.</li> 746 <li> 747 <strong>Keyword co-occurrence networks.</strong> Functionality has been added for creating keyword co-occurrence networks based on Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed files.</li> 748 <li> 749 <strong>Support for RIS files.</strong> Functionality has been added for creating co-authorship, keyword co-occurrence, and term co-occurrence networks based on RIS files. The RIS file format is supported by for instance Mendeley, BibSonomy, Zotero, and Publish or Perish.</li> 750 <li> 751 <strong>Automatic layout parameters.</strong> When creating a new map, the parameters of the layout technique can automatically be set to appropriate values.</li> 752 <li> 753 <strong>Improved user interface.</strong> A number of user interface improvements have been made.</li> 754</ul> 755<p style="padding-top: 10px"> 756 <a class="linklaunch" href="download">Download VOSviewer</a></p> 757<hr class="white" /> 758<h3 class="head3"> 759 VOSviewer version 1.6.3</h3> 760<p> 761 VOSviewer version 1.6.3 was released on October 27, 2015. This version includes the following new features:</p> 762<ul> 763 <li> 764 <strong>Bibliographic coupling and co-authorship networks of countries.</strong> Functionality has been added for creating bibliographic coupling and co-authorship networks of countries based on Web of Science and Scopus data.</li> 765 <li> 766 <strong>Automatic detection of copyright statements.</strong> When creating a term map, copyright statements in the abstracts of scientific publications can be automatically detected and ignored.</li> 767</ul> 768//--> 769 </div> 770 </div> 771 </div> 772 <div class="setcontainer setstyle13"> 773 <div class="set empty" data-style="setstyle13" data-set="49"> 774 <a class="anchortarget" data-anchortarget="screenshots" name="Screenshots"></a> 775 <div class="element empty" data-element="(element)"> 776 <p> 777 <a class="SBXimagelink" rel="shadowbox[serie49E];" 778 href="media/images/content/f8c91372ecf0176183cc1f2591ccd889_large.png"><img 779 alt="" data-overlay="imageserie" 780 src="media/images/content/f8c91372ecf0176183cc1f2591ccd889__278.png" 781 style="width:278px;padding-bottom:15px;"></a> <a 782 class="SBXimagelink" rel="shadowbox[serie49E];" 783 href="media/images/content/b6143a8f7b981b12de374fb257b16e4e_large.png"><img 784 alt="" data-overlay="imageserie" 785 src="media/images/content/b6143a8f7b981b12de374fb257b16e4e__278.png" 786 style="width:278px;padding-bottom:15px;"></a> <a 787 class="SBXimagelink" rel="shadowbox[serie49E];" 788 href="media/images/content/ea30284dd349a3651f465ac581592983_large.png"><img 789 alt="" data-overlay="imageserie" 790 src="media/images/content/ea30284dd349a3651f465ac581592983__278.png" 791 style="width:278px;padding-bottom:15px;"></a> <a 792 class="SBXimagelink" rel="shadowbox[serie49E];" 793 href="media/images/content/189fa516c4e9066c941a4c4fea7db925_large.png"><img 794 alt="" data-overlay="imageserie" 795 src="media/images/content/189fa516c4e9066c941a4c4fea7db925__278.png" 796 style="width:278px;padding-bottom:15px;"></a> <a 797 class="SBXimagelink" rel="shadowbox[serie49E];" 798 href="media/images/content/3300d2761b6963f793ad9a3a8554bece_large.png"><img 799 alt="" data-overlay="imageserie" 800 src="media/images/content/3300d2761b6963f793ad9a3a8554bece__278.png" 801 style="width:278px;padding-bottom:15px;"></a> <a 802 class="SBXimagelink" rel="shadowbox[serie49E];" 803 href="media/images/content/a85a6c4ea4be8fe712929d0ecff44b58_large.png"><img 804 alt="" data-overlay="imageserie" 805 src="media/images/content/a85a6c4ea4be8fe712929d0ecff44b58__278.png" 806 style="width:278px;padding-bottom:15px;"></a><a 807 class="SBXimagelink" rel="shadowbox[serie49E];" 808 href="media/images/content/08a8dd14196910a1715cedf5df544371_large.png"><img 809 alt="" data-overlay="imageserie" 810 src="media/images/content/08a8dd14196910a1715cedf5df544371__278.png" 811 style="width:278px;padding-bottom:15px;"></a> 812 </p> 813 814 </div> 815 </div> 816 </div> 817 <div class="setcontainer setstyle13 grey"> 818 <div class="set " data-style="setstyle13 grey" data-set="58"> 819 <a class="anchortarget" data-anchortarget="information-right" 820 name="Information (right)"></a> 821 <div class="element " data-element="(element)"> 822<!-- 823<h3 class="head3">Security notice</h3> 824<p>On August 31, an unauthorized party gained access to the VOSviewer website. As a result, a malicious version of the VOSviewer Windows executable was available for download on August 31 between 3:30 and 13:20 CEST. Only users who downloaded the Windows executable during this time period are at risk. If you did so, we strongly recommend deleting the downloaded file immediately, running a full antivirus scan, and taking any additional security precautions in accordance with your organization's security policy.</p> 825<p>The incident was detected quickly by the Security Operations Centre at Leiden University, and immediate mitigation measures were taken to contain the incident and limit its potential impact. A detailed investigation is currently ongoing in collaboration with cybersecurity partners, including SURFcert. Users who will be identified as downloaders or users of the malicious version will be notified directly.</p> 826<p>We will provide further updates as soon as more information becomes available. 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843are. 844 </p> 845 <p style="padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> 846 <a class="linklaunch" 847 href="https://www.cwts.nl/education/cwts-course-program/visualizing-science-using-vosviewer" 848 target="_blank">VOSviewer course</a> 849 </p> 850 <hr class="white"> 851//--> 852 <p style="padding-bottom:5px; text-align: center;"> 853 <img alt="VOSviewer Online" 854 src="media/images/content/3f06a9955e1675101885920376fa2ae7__200.png" 855 style="width: 200px; height: 105px;"> 856 </p> 857 <h3 class="head3"> 858 VOSviewer Online</h3> 859 <p> 860 VOSviewer Online is a web-based version of VOSviewer. It runs in a web 861 browser and can be used to share interactive visualizations and to embed 862 these visualizations in online platforms. More information can be found 863 in <a 864 href="https://leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/vosviewer-goes-online-part-1" 865 target="_blank">this blog post</a>.</p> 866 <p style="padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> 867 <a class="linklaunch" href="https://app.vosviewer.com/" 868 target="_blank">Launch VOSviewer</a> 869 </p> 870 <hr class="white"> 871 <p style="padding-bottom:5px; text-align: center;"> 872 <img alt="VOSviewer Online in Dimensions" 873 src="media/images/content/d46aee2750044874ddf4dbf056bff45f__200.png" 874 style="width: 200px; height: 135px;"> 875 </p> 876 <h3 class="head3"> 877 VOSviewer Online in Dimensions</h3> 878 <p> 879 VOSviewer Online has been integrated in Digital Scienceâs Dimensions 880 platform, making it very easy for Dimensions users to create VOSviewer 881 visualizations of co-authorship networks and citation networks. More 882 information is available in <a 883 href="https://www.dimensions.ai/blog/visualize-networks-instantly-within-dimensions/" 884 target="_blank">this blog post</a>.</p> 885 <hr class="white"> 886 <!-- 887<h3 class="head3"> 888 VOSviewer web start</h3> 889<p> 890 Click the�button below to launch VOSviewer directly from this web page. This requires a system with Java support.</p> 891<p style="padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> 892 <a class="linklaunch" href="https://www.vosviewer.com/vosviewer.php" target="_blank">Launch VOSviewer</a></p> 893<hr class="white" /> 894//--><!-- 895<p style=" padding-bottom:5px; text-align: center;"> 896 <a class="SBXimagelink" rel="shadowbox;" href="media/images/content/f07cd60cef49fb127068a9aefd52965a_large.png"><img alt="" data-overlay="image" src="media/images/content/f07cd60cef49fb127068a9aefd52965a__100.png" style="width: 100px; height: 142px;" /></a></p> 897<h3 class="head3"> 898 VOSviewer case studies</h3> 899<p> 900 The recently published AIDA booklet presents a number of interesting case studies in which VOSviewer is used.</p> 901<p style="padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> 902 <a class="linklaunch" href="https://aida.tudelft.nl/toolbox/aida-booklet" target="_blank">AIDA booklet</a></p> 903<hr class="white" /> 904//--> 905 <p style=" padding-bottom:5px; text-align: center;"> 906 <a class="SBXimagelink" rel="shadowbox;" 907 href="media/images/content/1c6159af0e742bb3230e75e4957918d3_large.png"><img 908 alt="" data-overlay="image" 909 src="media/images/content/1c6159af0e742bb3230e75e4957918d3__200.png" 910 style="width: 200px; height: 145px;"></a> 911 </p> 912 <h3 class="head3"> 913 You may also be interested in our CitNetExplorer tool</h3> 914 <p> 915 CitNetExplorer is a software tool for visualizing and analyzing citation 916 networks of scientific publications. Citation networks can be explored 917 interactively, for instance by drilling down into a network and by 918 identifying clusters of closely related publications.</p> 919 <p style="padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;"> 920 <a class="linklaunch" href="https://www.citnetexplorer.nl" 921 target="_blank">CitNetExplorer website</a> 922 </p> 923 924 </div> 925 </div> 926 </div> 927 </div> 928 </div> 929 </div> 930 </div> 931 </section> 932 933 934 <!-- footer --> 935 <footer class="footcontainer" data-content="outer"> 936 <div class="footcontent"> 937 938 <!-- leiden univ logo --> 939 <div class="logo"> 940 <a href="https://leidenuniv.nl/" alt="Leiden Univ" target="_blank"> 941 <img src="media/images/style/logos/leidenuniv_logo.png" alt=""> 942 </a> 943 <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cwts.nl/"> 944 <img alt="Centre for Science and Technology Studies" 945 src="media/images/style/logos/cwts_logo_complete_white.png" height="59" 946 style="height: 59px;"> 947 </a> 948 </div> 949 950 <!-- copyright --> 951 <div class="copyright"> 952 Copyright © 2026 Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands 953 </div> 954 955 <!-- legal and other pages --> 956 <nav class="footmenu"> 957 <ul> 958 <li data-mlvl="1"> 959 <a class="mid" data-type="menu" data-id="54" href="privacy.html" rel="nofollow" 960 title="Privacy">Privacy</a> 961 </li> 962 </ul> 963 </nav> 964 </div> 965 </footer> 966 </div> 967 </div> 968
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