A Literature Review on Application Progress and Research Prospects of CiteSpace
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paper_title: Searching for intellectual turning points: Progressive knowledge domain visualization

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This article introduces a previously undescribed method progressively visualizing the evolution of a knowledge domain's cocitation network. The method first derives a sequence of cocitation networks from a series of equal-length time interval slices. These time-registered networks are merged and visualized in a panoramic view in such a way that intellectually significant articles can be identified based on their visually salient features. The method is applied to a cocitation study of the superstring field in theoretical physics. The study focuses on the search of articles that triggered two superstring revolutions. Visually salient nodes in the panoramic view are identified, and the nature of their intellectual contributions is validated by leading scientists in the field. The analysis has demonstrated that a search for intellectual turning points can be narrowed down to visually salient nodes in the visualized network. The method provides a promising way to simplify otherwise cognitively demanding tasks to a search for landmarks, pivots, and hubs.
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paper_title: CiteSpace II: Detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature

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This article describes the latest development of a generic approach to detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature. The work makes substantial theoretical and methodological contributions to progressive knowledge domain visualization. A specialty is conceptualized and visualized as a time-variant duality between two fundamental concepts in information science: research fronts and intellectual bases. A research front is defined as an emergent and transient grouping of concepts and underlying research issues. The intellectual base of a research front is its citation and co-citation footprint in scientific literature—an evolving network of scientific publications cited by research-front concepts. Kleinberg's (2002) burst-detection algorithm is adapted to identify emergent research-front concepts. Freeman's (1979) betweenness centrality metric is used to highlight potential pivotal points of paradigm shift over time. Two complementary visualization views are designed and implemented: cluster views and time-zone views. The contributions of the approach are that (a) the nature of an intellectual base is algorithmically and temporally identified by emergent research-front terms, (b) the value of a co-citation cluster is explicitly interpreted in terms of research-front concepts, and (c) visually prominent and algorithmically detected pivotal points substantially reduce the complexity of a visualized network. The modeling and visualization process is implemented in CiteSpace II, a Java application, and applied to the analysis of two research fields: mass extinction (1981–2004) and terrorism (1990–2003). Prominent trends and pivotal points in visualized networks were verified in collaboration with domain experts, who are the authors of pivotal-point articles. Practical implications of the work are discussed. A number of challenges and opportunities for future studies are identified. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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paper_title: Information Visualization of Research Fronts of Ecological Economics

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The distribution of geographic regions and institutions for the published papers regarding to ecological economics was analyzed by making use of the newly developed information visualization methods,and the co-citation data records retrieved from Web of Science(SCI,SSCI,AHCI) between 1975 and 2007.The three stages of evolutionary process of ecological economics discipline from its institutional formation,expansion to thorough development were summarized,the contribution of pivotal points,which stand for the famous ecological economists and their work,to the development of ecological economics were analyzed.The research frontier topics in different stages related to ecological economics can be reflected by the special terms which were detected by information visualization tool CiteSpace.
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paper_title: Countries Co-citation Network of International Energy Technology

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In this article,countries co-citation networks of international energy technology research was drawn.The co-citation network was first derived using graph-theoretical approaches as implemented in CiteSpace.The documents by topic word"energy technolog*"between 1987 to 2006 was retrieved which is published by article type in English from web of science which contains SCI and SSCI database index.Based on the cluster information,the distribution and the research fronts of international energy technology was analyzed.
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paper_title: The Information Visualization of Research in International S&T Policy and Analysis of the Key Nodes

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We can analyze the evolution and development of the scientific fields by the scientific document's growth and document half-life's size .By the Cite Space, one information visualization tool, we got the document co-citation map in the field of the international ST Policy in this paper, and emphatically analyze the key nodes in the map, and then probe the forefront and evolution of the field. Finally, we concluded, the production methods of the scientific knowledge had seen tremendous changes. In addition, basic and applied research couldn't completely separate, but in-teract, infiltrate and flow mutually.
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paper_title: Mapping of Citation Analysis Field in China Based CSSCI

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527 records of papers and 3 328 citation references in 1998-2007 are retrieved from CSSCI by using "citation analysis" as search word. The authors study the dataset with the methods of Citation Analysis, Social Network Analysis and get knowledge maps in "citation analysis" field. Some softwares for example Netdraw、Citespace are used . These maps can reflect the development trends, find out the pivotal people and works in citation analysis field and exhibit the relation between knowledge structure and evolution process.
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paper_title: An analysis of the academic literature on simulation and modelling in health care

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This article describes a multi-dimensional approach to the classification of the research literature on simulation and modelling in health care. The aim of the study was to analyse the relative frequency of use of a range of operational research modelling approaches in health care, along with the specific domains of application and the level of implementation. Given the vast scale of the health care modelling literature, a novel review methodology was adopted, similar in concept to the approach of stratified sampling. The results provide new insights into the level of activity across many areas of application, highlighting important relationships and pointing to key areas of omission and neglect in the literature. In addition, the approach presented in this article provides a systematic and generic methodology that can be extended to other application domains as well as other types of information source in health-care modelling.
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paper_title: History and theory of mapping knowledge domains

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Mapping knowledge domains is a kind of graph showing the relationship between evolution and structure for science knowl- edge;it directs the development of scientometrics.This chapter introduces the evolution history of the mapping knowledge domains in the view of citation analysis and information visualization,and explains some special mapping and corresponding principle respectively, such as Three Dimension Configuration Map,Multi-Dimensional Scaling Map,Social Network Analysis Map,Self-Organizing Map and Pathfinder Network Scaling Map.Its Promising applications show that mapping knowledge domains is an effective knowledge man- agement tool to sciencetechnology research and enterprise technology innovation.
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paper_title: Mapping international collaboration networks for Chinese scientometrics

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Using mapping of science and information visualization,all the papers published by Chinese scientometricians in the international journal of Scientometrics during 1978-2007 are analyzed and the map of international collaboration networks of Chinese scientometrics is drawn.The map shows that since 1996,the biggest collaboration network has been formed in which Liang Liming is the core collaborator.
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paper_title: The Mapping knowledge domains about development of domestic regional tourism research during 1998- 2014: Bibliometric analysis based on Cite Space

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The research used data from 419 articles about regional tourism in the CSSCI database during 1998-2014,and the bibliometric analysis tools of Cite Space to draw the mapping knowledge domains of cited authors,Co- authors and cited references. By analyzing the mapping knowledge domains,the regional tourism research history was restored. According to the research results,the regional tourism research scholars were mainly from the geography field. Bao Jigang and Wu Bihu were the largest contributors and co- founders in this research field. Regional tourism hotspot had experienced the tourism resources development and planning,regional tourism competition and cooperation,the regional tourism industry development and spatial structure change,and gradually to the prosperity and the deepening stage. In the future,the development model of the regional tourism will continue to be the task in accordance with study,which will be carried out in the spatial pattern,the service level of regional tourism and tourism planning.
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paper_title: Agent-based computing from multi-agent systems to agent-based Models: a visual survey

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Agent-based computing is a diverse research domain concerned with the building of intelligent software based on the concept of "agents". In this paper, we use Scientometric analysis to analyze all sub-domains of agent-based computing. Our data consists of 1,064 journal articles indexed in the ISI web of knowledge published during a 20 year period: 1990---2010. These were retrieved using a topic search with various keywords commonly used in sub-domains of agent-based computing. In our proposed approach, we have employed a combination of two applications for analysis, namely Network Workbench and CiteSpace--wherein Network Workbench allowed for the analysis of complex network aspects of the domain, detailed visualization-based analysis of the bibliographic data was performed using CiteSpace. Our results include the identification of the largest cluster based on keywords, the timeline of publication of index terms, the core journals and key subject categories. We also identify the core authors, top countries of origin of the manuscripts along with core research institutes. Finally, our results have interestingly revealed the strong presence of agent-based computing in a number of non-computing related scientific domains including Life Sciences, Ecological Sciences and Social Sciences.
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paper_title: Scientometric sorting by importance for literatures on life cycle assessments and some related methodological discussions

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Purpose ::: This paper aims to sort the literatures on life cycle assessments (LCA) by their respective importance through citation and co-citation analysis and to further discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these kinds of scientometric methods in the case of LCA research.
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paper_title: Emerging trends in regenerative medicine : a scientometric analysis in CiteSpace

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INTRODUCTION ::: Regenerative medicine involves research in a number of fields and disciplines such as stem cell research, tissue engineering and biological therapy in general. As research in these areas advances rapidly, it is critical to keep abreast of emerging trends and critical turns of the development of the collective knowledge. ::: ::: ::: AREAS COVERED ::: A progressively synthesized network is derived from 35,963 original research and review articles that cite 3875 articles obtained from an initial topic search on regenerative medicine between 2000 and 2011. CiteSpace is used to facilitate the analysis of the intellectual structure and emerging trends. ::: ::: ::: EXPERT OPINION ::: A major ongoing research trend is concerned with finding alternative reprogramming techniques as well as refining existing ones for induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). A more recent emerging trend focuses on the structural and functional equivalence between iPSCs and human embryonic stem cells and potential clinical and therapeutic implications on regenerative medicine in a long run. The two trends overlap in terms of what they cite, but they are distinct and have different implications on future research. Visual analytics of the literature provides a valuable, timely, repeatable and flexible approach in addition to traditional systematic reviews so as to track the development of new emerging trends and identify critical evidence.
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Title: A Literature Review on Application Progress and Research Prospects of CiteSpace

Section 1: INTRODUCTION
Description 1: Describe the fundamental characteristics and capabilities of CiteSpace, its evolution, and its utility in visualizing knowledge domains.

Section 2: CITESPACE'S DOMESTIC APPLICATION PROGRESS
Description 2: Discuss the development and applications of CiteSpace within the domestic context, highlighting key studies, contributions, and the expansion across various fields in the country.

Section 3: CITESPACE'S FOREIGN RESEARCH AND APPLICATION
Description 3: Explore the use and research applications of CiteSpace internationally, noting the differences and similarities with domestic usage.

Section 4: CITESPACE'S STATUS ANALYSIS
Description 4: Provide an evaluation of CiteSpace's current status, advantages in various research fields, and limitations encountered in its application.

Section 5: CITESPACE'S DEVELOPMENT PROSPECT
Description 5: Examine the future development prospects of CiteSpace, considering potential integrations with other tools and the implications for expanded and refined usage.