HistCite

Bibiliographic Analysis and Visualization Software


http://www.histcite.com/index.htm

HistCite has a wide array of features to help you analyze and visualize your bibliography.
Analytical Features

"HistCite™ helps you organize and analyze the results of a search to obtain various views of the topic’s structure, history, and key events.

HistCite extends the utility of search results beyond their use as reading lists. For example, it creates frequency distributions of the key bibliographic elements in the search output. With just a few clicks you can find out how many times a particular author, institution, or journal appears in the search output. Or, you can draw a graph of publication dates of papers in search results to see when activity in a field peaked or diminished. The program tabulates how frequently words appear in article titles as well as output of articles by country or institution, and it offers many other analyses."

• Complete author list with papers published and citation ranks.
• Complete journal list with papers published and citation ranks.
• Complete list of countries of origin of papers published and citation ranks
• Complete list of institutions of origin of papers published and citation ranks
• Complete list of departments within institutions of origin of papers published and citation ranks.
• Compiled list of title words
• Compiled list of all cited references. This can be used to identify article important to the topic of your collection that were not picked up by your search.
• Analysis by year of publication
• Analysis by language of publication
• Analysis by document type (research article, review, letter, etc.)
Search, Filter, Tag and Export
• HistCite contains a search engine that allows you to search for records that meet your criteria.
• HistCite allows you to click on any title word, author or journal name to see a filtered list of records that contain that search term.
• You can save your subsets of records by adding custom-named tags to the records.
• Subsets of records can be exported from collections for further analysis.
Graphical
• The HistCite Graph Maker allows you to create historiographs  — graphical representations of  the historical development of a research field — of selected articles within your collection.
Editing
HistCite has several built in features to make editing your data collection easy.
• Edit multiple records simultaneously to unify spelling variations in authors, addresses, or cited records.
• Add records manually into your collection. This is useful if you want to add books or other document types that are not indexed in the Web of Science.
• Automatically search and download records from the Web of Science to add to the collection.
Output
HistCite outputs subsets of data in many different formats for analysis in other programs, for incorporation into publications and presentations, and for presentation on web sites.
• Excel-compatible comma-separated value files from all analytical tables.
• High-quality graphics from Graph Maker.
• Subsets of network data compatible with widely used network analysis programs such as Pajek or NetDraw.
• Complete or selected HTML presentations of your analysis suitable for presentation on a web site.


Source Dr Eugene Garfield, founder of the Institute for Scientific Information and the inventor of the Science Citation Index
Difficulty Unknown
Compatibility PC
Rating 2
Language en