VOSviewer Alternatives

VOSviewer is described as 'Software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks. These networks may for instance include journals, researchers, or individual publications, and they can be constructed based on co-citation, bibliographic coupling, or co-authorship relations' and is an app. There are six alternatives to VOSviewer for Windows, Linux, Mac and Python. The best VOSviewer alternative is NVivo. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Cytoscape or Tabnetviz. Other great apps like VOSviewer are SciMAT, KH Coder and Graphia.

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  1. NVivo icon
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    Software for qualitative data analysis in every setting - from market research to content analysis and evaluation. QSR International’s products: XSight and NVivo are designed to help researchers and other people analyzing audio, video, photos, Word documents and PDF documents to...

    29 NVivo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Cytoscape icon
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    Cytoscape is an open source software platform for visualizing complex networks and integrating these with any type of attribute data. A lot of plugins are available for various kinds of problem domains, including bioinformatics, social network analysis, and semantic web.

    17 Cytoscape alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Tabnetviz icon
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    table-based network visualizer, a command-line tool for producing static network visualizations from a node table and an edge table.

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    • Python
     
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    SciMAT is an open source (GPLv3) software tool developed to perform a science mapping analysis under a longitudinal framework. SciMAT provides different modules that help the analyst to carry out the steps of a science mapping workflow.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. KH Coder icon
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    KH Coder is a free software for quantitative content analysis or text mining. It is also utilized for computational linguistics. You can analyze many languages including Chinese (simplified), English, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish.

    26 KH Coder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Graphia icon
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    Graphia is a powerful open source visual analytics application developed to aid the interpretation of large and complex datasets.

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    • Mac
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