SV: [SIGMETRICS] Newbie/outsider question on software available t o assist visualization of co-citation?

[Jesper Wiborg Schneider]

Dear Christina;

Olle Persson's Bibexcel software is able to perform the tasks you want. You
can download it www.umu.se/inforsk/Bibexcel/

You can use the "Citation among docs" command in the "Analyze" menu of the
program. There is a help file that will explain the procedure.

Please feel free to contact me off the the SIGMETRICS list if you have any
problems.

Kind Regards - Jesper

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Fra: Pikas, Christina K. [mailto:Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU]
Sendt: 8. november 2005 20:03
Til: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Emne: [SIGMETRICS] Newbie/outsider question on software available to assist
visualization of co-citation?


Hi All-
I find that I'm unable to sit quietly and lurk on the list so I hope
you'll forgive this question (and maybe answer it!).

I'm trying to visualize who's citing whom between two specific
organizations (not within a topic). I've searched on addresses in WoS
and retrieved relevant records and I've been playing with Dr. Chaomei
Chen's CiteSpace program to visualize the results.

My questions:
1) should it take ~hours to download 100 records with all the options
checked?
2) is there another program I should try to compare (freely available
and no programming required)?
3) can I do this between organizations, or only between people?  In
other words, I've got two files in the folder, one from University A,
one from University B.  The results are displayed, but I either have to
recognize the names or ?  Ideally, I'd like to see the citation
relationships between authors belonging to about 10 institutions.


Does this make sense?  Do I have to learn to program and make my own?
Is this the wrong forum for this question?

Thanks,

Christina K. Pikas, MLS (and Doctoral student, University of Maryland)