

It also offers new functionality for querying the Microsoft Academic API using author, affiliation, and journal IDs and for creating term co-occurrence maps based on Semantic Scholar data. This version fixes some problems in VOSviewer's functionality for working with data from Dimensions and Semantic Scholar. VOSviewer version 1.6.16 was released on November 25, 2020.

More information can be found in this blog post. Support has been added for VOSviewer JSON files, a new file type that provides an alternative for VOSviewer map and network files. Support has been added for creating maps based on files exported from the Lens. Maps will be visualized using the VOSviewer Online tool released last week. Support has been added for sharing maps online. VOSviewer version 1.6.17 was released on July 22, 2021. Microsoft Academic has been discontinued and is therefore no longer supported by VOSviewer. Querying Crossref using ROR (Research Organization Registry) IDs. Querying Europe PMC using full-text search and creating citation-based maps based on Europe PMC data.Ĭreating co-authorship and citation-based maps of organizations based on Semantic Scholar data. OpenAlex is a new open data source released recently by OurResearch. The following features have been added:Ĭreating maps based on OpenAlex data. VOSviewer version 1.6.18 was released on January 24, 2022. It also fixes some problems in creating maps based on Web of Science data. This version offers a number of improvements in VOSviewer's support for creating maps based on OpenAlex data. VOSviewer version 1.6.19 was released on January 23, 2023.
