CiteSpace © Chaomei Chen

Visualizing Patterns and Trends in Scientific Literature

Chen, C. (2006) CiteSpace II: Detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(3), 359-377.

Chen, C. (2004) Searching for intellectual turning points: Progressive Knowledge Domain Visualization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 101 (Suppl. 1), 5303-5310.

March 13, 2004: Science News Online. Mapping Scientific Frontiers by Ivars Peterson. (Local Copy)

January 21, 2004: BioMedNet. Special Report: Mapping intellectual milestones by Helen Dell. (Local Copy)

CiteSpace is a freely available Java application for analyzing and visualizing scientific literature. CiteSpace is expanding its scope to include additional data sources such as summaries of NSF awards. Click here for a direct WebStart, or downloading the package.

A preloaded demo project is included in CiteSpace. Here are some basic steps to get started with your own data. 1) Group files in a folder in the ISI Export Format. Each data file needs to start with “download” in its name and “.txt” as the extension. Any alphanumeric characters in between would be find, e.g., “download-mass-extinction-2006.txt”. 2) Start CiteSpace and create a Project. You need to specify two directories for a new project: one points to your data directory and the other is the project home, where you will find your saved images and other files generated by CiteSpace associated with the project. 3) Adjust the time slicing setting to match the time interval accordingly. 4) Press the “GO” button. A new window will pop up as soon as the processing is completed. Please refer to the user guide for fine tuning various parameters.

Feel free to email me your experience with CiteSpace. Email me bug reports and problems too.

Disclaimer

CiteSpace is made available as it is. Use at users own risk.

Created: Sept 13, 2004