{"id":581,"date":"2022-08-02T13:32:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T13:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/?p=581"},"modified":"2022-08-02T13:32:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T13:32:43","slug":"visualise-networks-within-the-dimensions-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/2022\/08\/02\/visualise-networks-within-the-dimensions-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualise networks within the Dimensions database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 18.0pt 0cm\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color: #101517\">The free version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.dimensions.ai%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7C%7C2b4808bc375a4838db7408da6bdfa554%7Ca6fa3b030a3c42588433a120dffcd348%7C0%7C0%7C637940905552339136%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=0tiA%2FzYq1%2BNOgutI8PsstAGl48tnBmdFz%2F9DrxuD00o%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><span style=\"color: #0675c4\">Dimensions database<\/span><\/a> is a powerful tool to search for publications, data sets, clinical trials and many more. Dimensions covers millions of research publications connected by more than\u00a0<span class=\"metrics-number\">1.6 billion<\/span> citations, supporting grants, datasets, clinical trials, patents and policy documents. It boasts to be the world\u2019s largest linked research information dataset.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dimensions.ai%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7C%7C2b4808bc375a4838db7408da6bdfa554%7Ca6fa3b030a3c42588433a120dffcd348%7C0%7C0%7C637940905552339136%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=y23j%2FjTQUdvaD1K0yc3C4soicXKCuT7BADAdT2nYQGo%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><span style=\"color: #0675c4\">Read more here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-593\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2022\/08\/Dimensions-580x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2022\/08\/Dimensions-580x189.jpg 580w, http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2022\/08\/Dimensions-768x250.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2022\/08\/Dimensions-676x220.jpg 676w, http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2022\/08\/Dimensions.jpg 937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 18.0pt 0cm\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color: #101517\">They have worked together with the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) to integrate their VOSViewer tool into Dimensions. VOSviewer is a software tool for constructing and visualising bibliometric networks which may include citations, bibliographic coupling, co-citations, or co-authorship relations. VOSviewer Online has been fully integrated and added as a visualisation option in the Analytical views panel for all versions of Dimensions. Initially, it is only available in the <em><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif\">Researchers Analytical View\u00a0<\/span><\/em>for publications. The following two types of analyses are available \u2014co-authorship analysis and citation analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_596\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-596\" class=\"wp-image-596 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2022\/08\/VosViewer-580x397.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2022\/08\/VosViewer-580x397.jpg 580w, http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2022\/08\/VosViewer-940x643.jpg 940w, http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2022\/08\/VosViewer-768x526.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2022\/08\/VosViewer-676x463.jpg 676w, http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2022\/08\/VosViewer.jpg 1011w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Co-authorship analysis<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 18.0pt 0cm\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color: #101517\">With this fairly new feature you can now easily identify key patterns in bibliometric data. Try it out and contact us if you need any assistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 18.0pt 0cm\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color: #101517\">Contact: <a href=\"mailto:mr@sun.ac.za\"><span style=\"color: #0675c4\">Mari\u00e9 Roux<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The free version of the Dimensions database is a powerful tool to search for publications, data sets, clinical trials and many more. Dimensions covers millions of research publications connected by more than\u00a01.6 billion citations, supporting grants, datasets, clinical trials, patents and policy documents. It boasts to be the world\u2019s largest linked research information dataset.\u00a0 Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tu3H-9n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}