Tutorial for ISSI 2013

CiteSpace: Visualizing and Analyzing the Structure and Dynamics of Scientific Fields

Chaomei Chen

College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University

3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104-2875, USA

Email: chaomei.chen@drexel.edu

Homepage: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345/

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

When: 13:00-16:00 July 15, 2013 Monday

Where: O1.01 Schulungsraum, First Floor, Main Building, University of Vienna

This tutorial introduces the concepts and theories that drive the design of CiteSpace and demonstrates how to conduct interactive visual analytic studies of scientific literature concerning a scientific field, a discipline, or an institution, and identify and interpret salient patterns and trends.

Keywords

visualization

research fronts

network evolution

emerging fields

citation analysis

Topics

Introduction

Overview

Getting Started

Examples

What’s Next

Datasets (right click on links to download)

1. Dataset 1: A test dataset to illustrate the basic concepts

2. Dataset 2: A dataset of articles within two citation steps to the three papers on CiteSpace

Reading Material (journal articles are downloadable from ResearchGate)

1. Chen, C., Leydesdorff, L. (In Press) Patterns of connections and movements in dual-map overlays: A new method of publication portfolio analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

2. Chen, C., Hu, Z., Milbank, J., Schultz, T. (2013) A visual analytic study of retracted articles in scientific literature. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(2), 234-253. DOI: 10.1002/asi.22755

3. Chen, C., Hu, Z., Liu, S., Tseng, H. (2012) Emerging trends in regenerative medicine: A scientometric analysis in CiteSpace. Expert Opinions on Biological Therapy, 12(5), 593-608.

4. Chen, C. (2012) Predictive effects of structural variation on citation counts. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(3), 431-449. doi: 10.1002/asi.21694

5. Chen, C. (2011) Turning Points: The Nature of Creativity. Springer.

6. Chen, C. (2010) Information visualization. Wiley Interdisciplinary Review: Computational Statistics, 2(4)(July/August), 387-403. 10.1002/wics.89

7. Chen, C., Ibekwe-SanJuan, F., & Hou, J. (2010) The structure and dynamics of co-citation clusters: A multiple-perspective co-citation analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(7), 1386-1409.

8. Chen, C., Chen, Y., Horowitz, M., Hou, H., Liu, Z., & Pellegrino, D. (2009). Towards an explanatory and computational theory of scientific discovery. Journal of Informetrics, 3(3), 191-209.

9. 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.

10. Chen, C. (2004) Searching for intellectual turning points: Progressive Knowledge Domain Visualization. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 101 (suppl.), 5303-5310.

11. Chen, C. (2002) Mapping Scientific Frontiers. Springer.