Trend Analysis

Time trends of production/citations with a fitted trendline and short forecast.

Trend Analysis

The Trend Analysis widget.

Overview

Aggregates a metric (documents, citations, …) over time and fits a trendline, optionally projecting a short forecast. Use it to quantify whether a field, topic or venue is growing, plateauing or declining.

Inputs

  • Data (Table) — bibliographic data with a Year column.

Outputs

  • Trends (Table) — the per-period series and fitted values.

  • Summary (Table) — slope/growth statistics.

Controls

  • Type — the metric to trend (document count, citations, …).

  • From / To — restrict the time window (years).

  • Aggregation — period granularity (e.g. yearly).

  • Trendline — model fitted to the series (linear / polynomial / exponential).

  • Forecast years — number of future years to project from the fit.

Actions: Analyze Trends.