Scientometric Portal

Tools and Software

General network and graph analysis and visualization 

• AGNA. A free Java-based software for SNA, sociometry and sequential analysis. Its name stands for Applied Graph and Network Analysis.
• CFinder. A is
  a free software for finding and visualizing overlapping dense groups of
  nodes in networks, based on the Clique Percolation Method (CPM). 
• Cytoscape. A free
  Java-based open source software that although originally designed for
  bioinformatics research, now it is a general platform for complex
  network analysis and visualization. Cytoscape core distribution provides
  a basic set of features for data integration and visualization.
  Additional features are available as plugins.
• GeoVIZ. A free
  toolkit for systematic analysis of spatial, temporal, and attribute
  data sets. It allows analysts to discover previously hidden patterns in
  data, moving from spatial patterns to statistical patterns and back
  again by mixing and matching data visualization components to quickly
  construct custom analysis tools. It rovides a large selection of mapping
  and statistical graphing components for depicting univariate and
  multivariate data in dynamically linked views.
• Gephi. A free
  open source interactive visualization and exploration platform for all
  kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.
• Graphviz. A free
  open source graph visualization software. Its main applications are
  networking, bioinformatics,  software engineering, database and web
  design, machine learning, and in visual interfaces for other technical
  domains. It take descriptions of graphs in a simple text language, and
  make diagrams in useful formats, such as images and SVG for web pages,
  PDF or Postscript for inclusion in other documents; or display in an
  interactive graph browser.
• GUESS. An free
  exploratory data analysis and visualization tool for graphs and
  networks. It can import standard formats (Pajek, GML) and export a wide
  variety of image types (GIF, PNG, EPS, PDF, JPG, SVG...). Because it is
  Jython/Java based, users can also construct your own applications and
  applets without much coding.
• igraph. A free
  software package for creating and manipulating undirected and directed
  graphs. It includes implementations for classic graph theory and also
  implements algorithms for some recent network analysis methods, like
  community structure search.
• KeyPlayer. A free
  software  for identifying an optimal set of nodes in a network for one
  of two basic purposes: (a) crippling the network by removing key nodes,
  and (b) selecting which nodes to either keep under surveillance or to
  try to influence via some kind of intervention. Written by Steve
  Borgatti.
• InFlow. A commercial software for Social Network Analysis & Organizational Network Analysis.
• MapEquation. Free algorithm and software for detecting communities in large networks.
• Multinet. A free data
  analysis package that can be used for ordinary data (in which you have a
  file that has one line of data for each case) and for network data (in
  which there are two files -- the "node" file describes the individuals
  and the "link" file describes the connections between individuals). [It
  hasn't beenupdated for long time].
• NetDraw. A free
  program written by Steve Borgatti for visualizing both 1-mode and
  2-mode social network data. It can read UCINET system files, UCINET DL
  files, Pajek files, and its own VNA format. It exports networds as
  metafile, jpg, gif and bitmap formats.
• NetMiner. A commercial software tool for exploratory analysis and visualization of Network Data. It has 73 kinds of SNA modules and 23 kinds of visualization modules.
• NetworkX. A  free Python-based
  open source software for the creation, manipulation, and study of the
  structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks. 
• NodeXL. A free,
  open-source template for MS Excel to draw graphs and networks. Networks
  can be imported from and exported to a variety of file formats (e.g.
  GraphML, UCINet, Pajek, and matrix), and built-in connections for
  getting networks from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and your local email are
  provided. You can learn how to use it by reading the book by Hansen et al. (2010).
• Pajek. A free Python-based open source sotware
  for large networks analysis of visualization. It is probably the most
  popular network analysis software and largely used by experts in
  scientometrics. You can learn how to use it by reading the book by de Nooy et al. (2011).
• prefuse. A free
  Java-based set of software tools for creating rich interactive data
  visualizations. Some of its features are Table, Graph, and Tree data
  structures supporting arbitrary data attributes, data indexing, and
  selection queries, and animation support.
• Smart Local Moving (SLM) algorithm: A free
  Java-based open-source algorithm (implemented in Modularity Optimizer)
  for community detection (or clustering) in large networks. It maximizes a
  so-called modularity function and it has been successfully applied to
  networks with tens of millions of nodes and hundreds of millions of
  edges. You can read its paper here.
• SNA package for R. A free range
  of tools for social network analysis with R, including node and
  graph-level indices, structural distance and covariance methods,
  structural equivalence detection, network regression, random graph
  generation, and 2D/3D network visualization.
• SoNIA. or Social Network Image Animator is a free open source Java-based package for visualizing dynamic or longitudinal network data.
• StOCNET. A free open source software for advanced statistical analysis (based on probability model) of social networks.
• Tulip. A free information visualization framework written by C++ dedicated to the analysis and visualization of relational data.
• UCINet. A commercial
  social network analysis program developed by Steve Borgatti and
  colleagues and distributed by Analytic Technologies. UCINET works in
  tandem with freeware program called NetDraw for visualizing networks.
  NetDraw is installed automatically with UCINet.
• Visone. A free software for analysis and visualization of social network data.

 Scientometric and bibliometric analysis 

• Bibexcel. A free
  software designed by Olle Persson to assist a user in analyzing
  bibliographic data, or any data of a textual nature formatted in a
  similar manner. The idea is to generate data files that can be imported
  to Excel, or any program that takes tabbed data records, for further
  processing. It can be used for co-citation, bibliographic coupling,
  mapping and clustering analysis.
• BiblioTool. It
  is a set of python scripts (open source) written by Sebastian Grauwin.
  They can read ISI data in csv format and do some analyses including
  co-occurrence map and bibliographic coupling.
• CiteSpace. A free
  Java-based software for visualizing and analyzing trends and patterns
  in scientific literature. It is designed as a tool for progressive
  knowledge domain visualization. Its primary source of input data is ISI
  WoS. But it also provides some simple interfaces for obtaining data from
  PubMed, arXiv, ADS, and NSF Award Abstracts. It can be used to generate
  geographic map overlays viewable in Google Earth based on the locations
  of authors.
• CitNetExplorer. A free
  java-based software tool developed by Uni of Leiden for visualizing and
  analyzing citation networks of scientific publications. It allows
  citation networks to be imported directly from the Web of Science
  database. Citation networks can be explored interactively, for instance
  by drilling down into a network and by identifying clusters of closely
  related publications. 
• CopalRed. A free
  program written by Xavier Polanco for the analysis of scholarly
  publications and scientometric purposes for example for analysing and
  visualizing the network structure of a scientific field.
• InterDisciplinary Research (IDR). It's a free
  tool to measure and map interdisciplinary research. It creates overlay
  maps of science, as a method to explore the degree of
  interdisciplinarity of a set of publications. 
• IN-SPIRE. A commercial
  software for exploring and visualizing textual data, including Boolean
  and ?topical? queries, term gisting, and time/trend analysis tools. It
  can be used to explore technical and patent literature, marketing and
  business documents, web data, accident and safety reports, newswire
  feeds and message traffic, and more.
• Headstart. A free open-source software to visualize readership data from Mendeley. It presents
  users with the main areas in the field, and lets them zoom into the
  most important publications within each area. It is intended to give
  researchers that are new to a field a head start on their literature
  review (hence the name). It has been developed by P. Kraker.
• HistCite. A free
  software developed by E. Garfield to aid researchers in visualizing the
  results of literature searches in the Web of Science. It lets you
  analyze and organize the results of a search to obtain various views of
  the topic's structure, history, and relationships. It visualizes the
  citation network in a historical manner.
• Loet Leydesdorff. A set of free
  DOS-based pieces of software to parse, transform and analyse
  bibliometrics data obtained from sources such as Scopus, ISI, and Google
  Scholar for analyses such as coauthorship, international,
  institutional, inter-city collaboration networks, co-word, co-citation
  and bibliographic analysis and so on. Although they do not include
  visualization tools, they prepare the data for the creation of
  relational databases and visualization by other tools such as Pajek.
  ISI.exe reads isi data in txt format and generates files suitable for
  creating relational database.
• Network Workbench. A free
  Java-based large-scale network analysis, modeling and visualization
  toolkit for biomedical, social science and physics research. It includes
  specific features for bibliometric studies.
• Publish or Perish. A free
  software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations Google
  Scholar and calculate No of papers, citations, average No. of citations
  per paper and per author and per year as well as h-indexs, g-index, and
  some more metrics.
• SAINT: (Science Assessment Integrated Network Toolkit).
  It is an open source software for scientometrics analysis and one of
  the few packages that can be used to convert ISI data into relational
  database (dbm or accdb or sql files). There is a forum to discuss the issues related to SAINT.
• SciMAT. SciMAT (Science Mapping Anaylsis Tool) is a java-based open source (GPLv3) free
  software tool developed to perform a science mapping analysis under a
  longitudinal framework. SciMAT reads bibliographic data in different
  format and creates a relational database in Sqlite 3 format and allows
  you to do different analyses. The advantage is that you can amend the
  data in the knowlegebase as you wish.
• Sci² Tool. A free
  Java-based modular toolset specifically designed for the study of
  science. It supports the temporal, geospatial, topical, and network
  analysis and visualization of scholarly datasets at the micro
  (individual), meso (local), and macro (global) levels. It has several
  visualization features.
• Scientometric Project. A set of open source Python scripts for some scientometric data analyses written by Theresa Velden.
• Vantage Point. A commercial
  powerful text-mining tool for discovering knowledge in search results
  from patent and literature databases. It has visualization capabilities.
• VOSviewer. A free
  Java-based program, primarily intended to be used for analyzing and
  visualizing bibliometric networks. It can creates maps of publications,
  authors, or journals based on a co-citation network or to construct maps
  of keywords based on a co-occurrence network.

Statistics  

Lotka. A free computer program for fitting a power law distribution such as Lotka.

R. A free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. 

Text anslysis and data mining 

Rapid Miner. A free powerfull general purpose data mining application.

Textrend. A free platform for the in-depth analysis and visualization of dynamic information on the web for science or business.

Vantage Point. A commercial
powerful text-mining tool for discovering knowledge in search results
from patent and literature databases. It has visualization capabilities.

Science Mapping Resources

• Places & Spaces: Mapping Science. It is a collection of science maps and visualizations. It is exhibited in different places and they can be ordered.
• Atlas of Science. This is a book by Katy Börner published by MIT press. It includes 500 color illustrations of different science maps.
• Excellence Mapping.
  This web application  visualizes the scientific performance of
  institutions (universities or research-focused institutions) within
  specific subject areas (e.g. Chemical Engineering) as ranking lists and
  on maps.

Science Analysis Companies and Services

• Academic Analytics. It is a
  provider of high-quality, custom business intelligence data and
  solutions for research universities in the United States and the United
  Kingdom. It helps universities identify their strengths and areas where
  improvements can be made.
• Elsevier. It is the publisher of Scopus database as well as SciVal which Is a suite of research tools that helps you evaluate, establish and execute your research strategies more effectively. SciVal Spotlight
  is a unique web-based strategic analysis tool that enables academic
  executives to make informed strategic decisions by measuring and
  evaluating an institution's research performance. It evaluates your
  institution's research output in a single interface. SciVal Funding
  is a web-based solution that gives research administrators and
  researchers in the pre-award stage access to current research funding
  opportunities and award information. It allows you to Find the right
  funding opportunities and analyze the funding environment.
• Evidence Ltd. A British knowledge-based company based in Leeds that specializes in the analysis and interpretation of research performance.
• iFQ (=Institut für Forschungsinformation und Qualitätssicherung [Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance]). It is a
  non-university organization for science studies located in Berlin
  (Germany). The iFQ provides information and analysis of developments and
  transformations in the German and international science system. It
  focuses on conditions, prerequisites and consequences of research policy
  and research funding.
• SCImago. Is
  a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators
  developed from the information contained in the Scopus. These indicators
  can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains.
• Science Metrix.
  It provides customized services in performance measurement and program
  evaluation using advanced bibliometric indicators and recognized
  quantitative and qualitative research methods. In 2010 it published a
  '30 Years in Science' report.
• SciTech Strategies Inc. It mainly creates map of science.
• Thomson Reuters.
  It publishes Web of Knowledge and Web of Science and it also produces a
  few science analysis databases such as Journal Citation Reports,
  Science Watch, and Essential Science Indicators. WoS includes some
  analysis tools.

Journals related to Scientometrics

Books on Scientometrics