Extra:citation visualizations

Existing tools for visualizing and data-analytics of citation networks

• [VOSviewer http://www.vosviewer.com/]: Tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks. Offers text mining functionality that can be used to construct and visualize co-occurrence networks of important terms extracted from a body of scientific literature.

• CiteSpace: Java application for visualizing and analyzing trends and patterns in scientific literature.
  • Official site.
  • Documentation.

• Relationships among scientific paradigms. Well-publicized "map of science", generated using bespoke software. (Was reprinted in Nature, Discovery Magazine, SEED, etc.)

General Visualization Tools (that could be used for citation networks)

• Python with matplotlib.
  • [iPython network citation example]