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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) | ||
1996 | Statistics | A + V | MANET is a tool for exploring data, providing a range of graphical tools for studying multivariate features. | Graphical | Yes | Mac | (Unwin 1996) | ||
1997 | Statistics | A +V | ExplorN is a data analysis and visualization tool that supports scatterplot matrices, parallel coordinate plots, incon-enhanced three-dimensional seteoscopic plots, and more. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Carr et al. 1997) | ||
1998 | Statistics | A + V | XGobi is a data visualization system for viewing high-dimensional data. | Graphical | Yes | Windows, Linux | (Swayne et al. 1998) | ||
2000 | SocSci* | A + V | Social network analysis software particularly useful for exploratory analysis. | Graphical | No | Windows | (Borgatti, Everett et al. 2002) | ||
2000 | Statistics | A + V | XploRe allows for multidimensional analysis, non- and semiparametric modelling, and analysis of financial markets. | Graphical | Yes | Windows, Linux | (Härdle et al. 2000) | (Wilkinson et al. 2000) | |
2000 | CS | Analysis and Manipulation | Extremely efficient and flexible C++ library for extremely large networks. | Library | Yes | All Major | (Siek, Lee et al. 2002) | ||
2000 | Statistics | A + V | nViZn is a Java foundation for analytical graphics, best understood as a geometric analytical engine that allows for the visualization of statistical data. | Command-line | No | All Major | |||
2001 | GeoVis | A + V | CommonGIS is a tool for visualizing spatial data and allows for exploratory data analysis. | Graphical | Yes | Web based | (Andrienko et al. 2003) | ||
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) | ||
2002 | Statistics | A + V | Mondrian is a general purpose data visualization program particularly useful when working with categorical data, geographical data and large data sets. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Theus 2002) | ||
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) | ||
2003 | Statistics | A + V | ExlporN is a data visualization program that focuses on parallel coordinate plots, scatterplots, and grand tour animations. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Wegman and Dorfman 2003) | ||
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) | ||
2004 | Networks | Visualization | Flexible graph visualization software. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (AT&T-Research-Group 2008) | ||
2005 | Geo | A + V | OpenGeoDa is a tool for exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) on lattice data (points and polygons). | Graphical | Yes | All major | (Anselin 2005) | ||
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) | ||
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 | 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) | ||
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) | ||
2006 | Networks | A + V | This open-source social network analysis tool is under development by Abe Usher. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Terna 2008) | ||
2007 | Networks | Visualization | A tool for visual graph exploration that integrates a scripting environment. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Adar 2007) | ||
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) | ||
2007 | Networks | A + V | Commetrix software allows users to dynamically analyze and create rich network maps. | Graphical | Yes | Windows (any system that supports Java) | (Trier and Bobrik 2007) | ||
2009 | Networks | A + V | Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Bastian et al., 2009) | ||
2009 | Networks | Visualization | VOSview is a visualization tool useful for analyzing bibliometric networks. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Eck and Waltman 2011) | ||
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) | ||
2011 | Scientom, | A + V | Tool for interactive assessment of projects portfolio and visualization of scientific landscapes. | Graphical | Yes | All Major | (Cointet 2008) | ||
2011 | Statistics | A + V | Spotfire allows users to analyze and visualize their data using complex and predictive statistics. | Graphical | No | All Major | (Shneiderman 2007) |
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