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Tool | Year | Domain | Coverage | Description | UI | Open Source | Operating System | References |
S&T Dynamics Toolbox | 1985 | Scientom. | Scientom. | Tools from Loet Leydesdorff for organization analysis, and visualization of scholarly data. | Command-line | No | Windows | (Leydesdorff 2008) |
In Flow | 1987 | SocSci | A + V | Social network analysis software for organizations with support for what-if analysis. | Graphical | No | Windows | (Krebs 2008) |
1996 | SocSci* | A + V | A network analysis and visualization program with many analysis algorithms, particularly for social network analysis. | Graphical | No | Windows | (Batagelj and Mrvar 1998) | |
2000 | SocSci* | A + V | Social network analysis software particularly useful for exploratory analysis. | Graphical | No | Windows | (Borgatti, Everett et al. 2002) | |
2000 | CS | Analysis and Manipulation | Extremely efficient and flexible C++ library for extremely large networks. | Library | Yes | All Major | (Siek, Lee et al. 2002) | |
Visone | 2001 | SocSci | A + V | Social network analysis tool for research and teaching, with a focus on innovative and advanced visual methods. | Graphical | No | All Major | (Brandes and Wagner 2008) |
GeoVISTA | 2002 | Geo | GeoVis | GIS software that can be used to lay out networks on geospatial substrates. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Takatsuka and Gahegan 2002) |
Cytoscape | 2002 | Bio* | Visualization | Network visualization and analysis tool focusing on biological networks, with particularly nice visualizations. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Cytoscape-Consortium 2008) |
Tulip | 2003 | CS | Visualization | Graph visualization software for networks over | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Auber 2003) |
iGraph | 2003 | CS | Analysis and Manipulation | A library for classic and cutting edge network analysis usable with many programming languages. | Library | Yes | All Major | (Csárdi and Nepusz 2006) |
CiteSpace | 2004 | Scientom | A + V | A tool to analyze and visualize scientific literature, particularly co-citation structures. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Chen 2006) |
HistCite | 2004 | Scientom | A + V | Analysis and visualization tool for data from the Web of Science. | Graphical | No | Windows | (Garfield 2008) |
R | 2004 | Statistics | A + V | A statistical computing language with many libraries for sophisticated network analyses. | Command-line | Yes | All Major | (Ihaka and Gentleman 1996) |
Prefuse | 2005 | Visualization | Visualization | A general visualization framework with many capabilities to support network visualization and analysis. | Library | Yes | All Major | (Heer, Card et al. 2005) |
GUESS | 2007 | Networks | Visualization | A tool for visual graph exploration that integrates a scripting environment. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Adar 2007) |
GraphViz | 2004 | Networks | Visualization | Flexible graph visualization software. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (AT&T-Research-Group 2008) |
NWB Tool | 2006 | Bio, | A + V | Network analysis & visualization tool conducive to new algorithms supportive of many data formats. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Huang 2007) |
BibExcel | 2006 | Scientom | A + V | Transforms bibliographic data into forms usable in Excel, Pajek, NetDraw, and other programs. | Graphical | No | Windows | (Persson 2008) |
Publish or Perish | 2007 | Scientom | Data Collection and Analysis | Harvests and analyzes data from Google Scholar, focusing on measures of research impact. | Web-based | No | Windows, Linux | (Harzing 2008) |
TINA | 2011 | Scientom, | A + V | Tool for interactive assessment of projects portfolio and visualization of scientific landscapes | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Cointet 2008) |
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