I am planning to compile a systematic literature review. I have downloaded .csv file of a collection of papers and their respective bibliometric information (authors' names and affiliations, year of publication, keywords, references, etc.). To conduct a network analyses of this acquired data in Gephi, I need to import different spreadsheets for making nodes and edges tables. The .csv file downloaded may be used as it is for nodes (if I'm not wrong). However, I am clueless about how to make edges file from this parent .csv file to conduct different types of network analyses (e.g., based on keywords, citations, research areas, etc.). Any guidance in this regard will be highly appreciated.
As you have already noticed, this cannot be done directly. The Scopus platform provides data as detailed data (notice that the volume of records being downloaded is intentionally limited by them) or as numerical aggregates - but there is no functionality for 'data traversal' by relationships such as co-quoting, co-authorship, etc. So you have two options - the first one is to process these data in some external analytical tool that will able to generate files for Gephi, or, the second one - to use the API provided by Gephi to create a dedicated module.
You can find an example of the first approach in:
Article Wizualizacje wybranych wskaźników bibliometrycznych na przyk...
Article Research Collaboration Patterns in Sustainable Mining—A Co-A...
An example of the second approach here:
https://www.researchgate.net/project/ScientoMiner
but the last one is based not on Scopus but Crossref services.
But most of all, you have to do a lot of data cleaning first ;)
Good luck!
Hello Sanchi Arora
It is really good to see researchers using bibliometrics for usual literature reviews.
Although you have asked specifically for gephi, i think there is a good alternative to serve these analyses and visualisations.
If you are working with Data from Scopus, Web of Science or Dimensions Databases, you should try Bibliometrix package in Rstudio. In this, there is an Biblioshiny app where you can do all the bibliometric, citation, network analysis and visualizations simultaneously. With only one or two lines of command you can run the Biblioshiny app and do the analyses.
Please check these links
https://www.bibliometrix.org/index.html
https://www.bibliometrix.org/Biblioshiny.html
I would be happy to hear if it is useful for you or not.
Regards
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