CiteSpace II

What is it about?

This is a classic publication on CiteSpace. This article demonstrates how CiteSpace can be used to facilitate the development of our understanding of a research field through two case studies. The first case is mass extinction research. What are the landmarks and critical paths of how the research evolves? The second case is the literature on terrorist attacks and terrorism. In particular, the second case included two parts: one is driven by the visualization, the other is based on interviews with domain experts identified based on structural and temporal properties of their works in the visualization.

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Why is it important?

The importance of the work is its pioneering role in lowering the threshold of conducting a new type of scientometric studies guided by a wide variety of visual analytic patterns and trends. CiteSpace provides a practical tool for researchers to explore and access the scholarly literature of a domain of interest. The two indepth case studies demonstrate how users may address their needs with the publicly available tool.