Table 1.

References associated with bibliometric software tools

Bibliometric software tool	References
Bibexcel	Persson, O., Danell, R., & Schneider, J. W. (2009). How to use Bibexcel for various types of bibliometric analysis. Celebrating scholarly communication studies: A Festschrift for Olle Persson at his 60th Birthday, 9–24. http://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1458990/file/1458992.pdf
Bibliometrix/BiblioShiny	Aria, M., & Cuccurullo, C. (2017). Bibliometrix: An R-tool for comprehensive science mapping analysis. Journal of Informetrics, 11(4), 959–975. 10.1016/j.joi.2017.08.007
BiblioMaps/BiblioTools	Grauwin, S., & Jensen, P. (2011). Mapping scientific institutions. Scientometrics, 89(3), 943–954. 10.1007/s11192-011-0482-y
CiteSpace	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. 10.1002/asi.20317
CitNetExplorer	van Eck, N. J., & Waltman, L. (2014). CitNetExplorer: A new software tool for analyzing and visualizing citation networks. Journal of Informetrics, 8(4), 802–823. 10.1016/j.joi.2014.07.006
SciMAT	Cobo, M. J., López‐Herrera, A. G., Herrera‐Viedma, E., & Herrera, F. (2012). SciMAT: A new science mapping analysis software tool. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(8), 1609–1630. 10.1002/asi.22688
Sci2 Tool	Sci2 Team. (2009). Science of Science (Sci2) Tool. Indiana University and SciTech Strategies. https://sci2.cns.iu.edu
VOSviewer	van Eck, N. J., & Waltman, L. (2010). Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping. Scientometrics, 84(2), 523–538. 10.1007/s11192-009-0146-3