Table 2.
Citing articles to bibliometric software tools from a Cited Reference Search, Author Keywords, and KeyWords Plus
| Bibliometric software tool | Boolean string used in “Cited Author” and “Cited Work” fields |
# Citing articles | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited Reference Search (Cited Author OR Cited Work OR Cited Title OR Cited DOI)a |
Author Keywords | KeyWords Plus | |||
| Review articles | Research articles | ||||
| BibExcel | BibExcel* OR “Bib Excel” | 81 | 181 | 7 | 0 |
| BiblioMaps/BiblioToolsb | BiblioMaps* OR BiblioTools* OR “Biblio Maps” OR “Biblio Tools” | 2 | 33 | 0 | 0 |
| Bibliometrix/Biblioshinyc | Bibliometrix* OR Biblioshiny* OR “Biblio mertrix” OR “Biblio shiny” | 293 | 389 | 33 | 0 |
| CiteSpace | CiteSpace* OR “Cite Space” | 390 | 851 | 274 | 14 |
| CitNetExplorer | CitNetExplorer* OR “CitNet Explorer” OR “Citation Network Explorer” | 50 | 123 | 4 | 6 |
| SciMAT | SciMAT* OR “Sci MAT” OR “Science Mapping Analysis Software Tool” | 56 | 188 | 34 | 0 |
| Sci2 Tool | “Sci2 Tool*” OR “Science of Science (Sci2)” OR “Science of Science Tool” | 5 | 19 | 2 | 0 |
| VOSviewer |
VOSviewer* OR “VOS viewer” OR “ Visualization of Similarities” |
950 | 1664 | 308 | 0 |
aThe “Cited Title” and “Cited DOI” information is available in Table 1
bBiblioTools are the python scripts and the base of the BiblioMaps
cBiblioshiny is the web interface of Bibliometrix