I try to help a doctoral student (my daughter, actually) to do a meta-analysis on a medical topic. I would like to apply social network analysis to a bibliographic survey (authors, key-words, abstract and citations). I plan to use the CiteSpace application which looked to me a good option at first glance. Unfortunately for me, being an independent researcher, I have no access to institutional databases and must use open source such as Google Scholar for my bibliographic research.
But the software is mainly dedicated at analysing Web of Science type of data, even if the manual mentions the option of using bibliographic records from other licensed sites like PubMed (with the same issue of requiring licensed access).
Do you know ways of formatting Google Search results according to Web of Science format, either by hand (csv file) or using dedicated applications (e.g., R scripts)?
Thanks in advance, Hubert
Hello, Hubert Escaith
Unfortortuntly, the full record "Cited References are not included in the Google Scholar exported data, which are required for any bibliometric analysis.
Luckily, you don't need to have access to WoS, PubMed, or Scopus datasets to be able to conduct bibliometric analysis.
There are alternative open access bibliometric data sources (Lens, Dimensions.), which can be used in many bibliometric analysis tools (e.g., VOSviewer, Bibliometrix )
So, I suggest using either VOSviewer or Bibliometrix R Package to do a bibliographic study. Here is how to start:
- Conduct your search (using the appropriate keywords on databases Lens/Dimensions.).
https://www.lens.org/
https://www.dimensions.ai/
(you shall create an account first)
- After exporting the( raw data ) download the VOSviewer/Bibliometrix R Package ( after installing R and other required packages). Both can create maps based on files exported from the Lens/Dimensions.
https://www.vosviewer.com/
Bibliometrix R Package
https://www.bibliometrix.org
- Check the guidance of the selected tool. Also, you may look for some related published articles to see how the results were organized and presented.
I assume your daughter already has a framework and research questions that guide her study.
Good luck!
Salah Ahmed Thanks a lot. I had a look at Dimensions, but it also requires some sort of institutional endorsement. Will look at Lens. In all cases, I'll see what daughter can extract as this is not my field (I am more of a data crunching type...). Cheers.
Medical? Try PubMed… I am also an independent researcher and use it all of the time. Here is a recent network collaboration map of researchers focused on the topic of “cancer vaccines”. Many download options on PubMed.
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