Visualizing and Exploring Scientific Literature with CiteSpace: An Introduction

Abstract

This half-day tutorial aims to introduce the fundamental concepts, principles and methods of visualizing and exploring the development of a scientific knowledge domain. The tutorial explains the design rationale and various applications of CiteSpace ' a freely available tool for interactive and exploratory analysis of the evolution of a scientific domain, ranging from a single specialty to multiple interrelated scientific frontiers. The tutorial demonstrates the analytic procedure of applying CiteSpace to a diverse range of examples and how one may interpret various patterns and trends revealed by interactive visual analytics.magnetic field, applied along the easy axis of the elements.