Pros and cons of bibliometric tools
| Item | VOSviewer | Bibliometrix |
|---|---|---|
| Software requirements | Linux, Windows or MacOS | Linux, Windows or MacOS |
| Install requirements | Download the appropriate version for your operating system | Requires installation of R language IDE and then of the Bibliometrix package |
| Requires programming knowledge | No | Yes |
| Ease of use | High | Low |
| Customizability | Low | High |
| Import data from (file formats accepted) | SCOPUS (CSV), Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (Plaintext or tab-delimited), PubMed/Medline (MEDLINE) and Dimensions (CSV) | SCOPUS (BibTeX or CSV), Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (Plaintext, BibTeX or EndNote), PubMed/Medline (MEDLINE), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Plaintext) and RISmed (RIS) |
| Load multiple files | Yes | Yes |
| Data analysis from multiple sources | No | Yes |
| API support | Microsoft Academic, Crossref, Europe PMC, Semantic Scholar, the Open Citations Corpus (OCC), OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations (COCI), and Wikidata | Dimensions, NCBI PubMed and Scopus |
| Exports spreadsheets | Yes | No |
| Dictionary creation (thesaurus) | Yes | No |
| Exclusive analysis that only one of the tools delivers | Temporal evolution of authors and institutions | Impact indexes (H-index, G-index, M-index) Totalization of authors, sources, base document |
| Flexibility and responsiveness to the use | High | Low |
| Item | VOSviewer | Bibliometrix |
|---|---|---|
| Software requirements | Linux, Windows or MacOS | Linux, Windows or MacOS |
| Install requirements | Download the appropriate version for your operating system | Requires installation of R language IDE and then of the Bibliometrix package |
| Requires programming knowledge | No | Yes |
| Ease of use | High | Low |
| Customizability | Low | High |
| Import data from (file formats accepted) | SCOPUS (CSV), Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (Plaintext or tab-delimited), PubMed/Medline (MEDLINE) and Dimensions (CSV) | SCOPUS (BibTeX or CSV), Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (Plaintext, BibTeX or EndNote), PubMed/Medline (MEDLINE), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Plaintext) and RISmed (RIS) |
| Load multiple files | Yes | Yes |
| Data analysis from multiple sources | No | Yes |
| API support | Microsoft Academic, Crossref, Europe PMC, Semantic Scholar, the Open Citations Corpus (OCC), OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations (COCI), and Wikidata | Dimensions, NCBI PubMed and Scopus |
| Exports spreadsheets | Yes | No |
| Dictionary creation (thesaurus) | Yes | No |
| Exclusive analysis that only one of the tools delivers | Temporal evolution of authors and institutions | Impact indexes (H-index, G-index, M-index) |
| Flexibility and responsiveness to the use | High | Low |
Source(s): Adopted from Arruda et al. (2022)
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