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Tool | Year | Domain | Coverage | Description | UI | Open Source | Operating System | References |
1985 | Scientom | A + V | Tools from Loet Leydesdorff for organization analysis, and visualization of scholarly data. | Command-line | No | Windows | (Leydesdorff 2008) | |
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) | |
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) | |
2002 | Geo | GeoVis | GIS software that can be used to lay out networks on geospatial substrates. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Takatsuka and Gahegan 2002) | |
2002 | Bio* | Visualization | Network visualization and analysis tool focusing on biological networks, with particularly nice visualizations. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Cytoscape-Consortium 2008) | |
2003 | CS | Visualization | Graph visualization software for networks over 1,000, 000 elements. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Auber 2003) | |
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) | |
2004 | Scientom | A + V | A tool to analyze and visualize scientific literature, particularly co-citation structures. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Chen 2006) | |
2004 | Scientom | A + V | Analysis and visualization tool for data from the Web of Science. | Graphical | No | Windows | (Garfield 2008) | |
2004 | Statistics | A + V | A statistical computing language with many libraries for sophisticated network analyses. | Command-line | Yes | All Major | (Ihaka and Gentleman 1996) | |
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) | |
2007 | Networks | Visualization | A tool for visual graph exploration that integrates a scripting environment. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Adar 2007) | |
2004 | Networks | Visualization | Flexible graph visualization software. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (AT&T-Research-Group 2008) | |
2006 | Bio, | A + V | Network analysis & visualization tool conducive to new algorithms supportive of many data formats. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Huang 2007) | |
2006 | Scientom | A + V | Transforms bibliographic data into forms usable in Excel, Pajek, NetDraw, and other programs. | Graphical | No | Windows | (Persson 2008) | |
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) | |
2011 | Scientom, | A + V | Tool for interactive assessment of projects portfolio and visualization of scientific landscapes. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Cointet 2008) | |
2010 | SocSci | A + V | NodeXL is a free, open-source template for Excel 2007 and 2010 that lets you enter a network edge list, click a button, and see the network graph, all in the Excel window. | Graphical | No | Windows | (Hansen et al. 2010) | |
2005 | Networks | Visualization | VisuaLyzer is a tool for importing data from Edgelists/Edgearray, Excel or GraphML formats and generating newtork visualizations. | Graphical | No | All Major | (Reshef 2009) | |
2006 | Netowrks | A + V | Tnet is a tool for social network analaysis of weighted, two-mode, and lognitudinal netowrks. | Graphcial | Yes | All Major | (Barrat et al. 2004) | |
2006 | Networks | A + V | KrackPlot is a netowrk analysis program designed specifically for the analysis of social networks. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (McGrath and Blythe 2004) |
Many of these tools are very specialized and capable. For instance, BibExcel and Publish or Perish are great tools for bibliometric data acquisition and analysis. HistCite and CiteSpace each support very specific insight needs – from studying the history of science to the identification of scientific research frontiers. The S&T Dynamics Toolbox provides many algorithms commonly used in scientometrics research and it provided bridges to more general tools. Pajek and UCINET are very versatile, powerful network analysis tools that are widely used in social network analysis. Cytoscape is excellent for working with biological data and visualizing networks.
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