Bibliometrics: Tools and Software

BibExcel is designed to assist in analysis of bibliographic data. This tool-box can generate data files that can be imported to Excel, or any program that takes tabbed data records, for further processing .Bibexcel is a free-ware for academic non-profit use.

CiteSpace is a freely available Java application for visualizing and analyzing trends and patterns in scientific literature.

A free, Windows program for visualizing social network data.

Pajek is an open source Windows program for analysis and visualization of large networks.

The Science of Science (Sci2) Tool is a modular toolset specifically designed for the study of science. It supports the temporal, geospatial, topical, and network analysis and visualization of scholarly datasets at the micro (individual), meso (local), and macro (global) levels.

Publish or Perish calculates citation metrics from data in Google Scholar. Free.

This free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R.

Sitkis is a free bibliometric tool that works on Java and MS Access

This is a software package for the analysis of social network data and comes with the NetDraw network visualization tool. The program can be downloaded and used for free for 90 days. Thereafter, the program will need to be individually purchased.

This is a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks such as journals, researchers, or individual publications, and they can be constructed based on citation, bibliographic coupling, co-citation, or co-authorship relations. VOSviewer also offers text mining functionality that can be used to construct and visualize co-occurrence networks of important terms extracted from a body of scientific literature.