Getting started

A typical workflow follows the order of the widget toolbox.

1. Load data

Place a Bibliographic Data widget and either open a database export (Scopus, Web of Science, OpenAlex, …) or query the OpenAlex API. Sample datasets are included for learning.

2. Prepare

  • OpenAlex Enrichment — add citations, open-access status, topics, SDGs and references by DOI.

  • Deduplicate & Merge — combine Scopus + WoS + OpenAlex and remove duplicates.

  • Filter / Text Preprocessing — subset records and clean keywords/abstracts.

  • Setup Groups — define groups for later comparison.

3. Describe & analyse

  • Main Information, Bibliometric Counts, Bibliometric Statistics → Performance Plot.

  • Bibliometric Laws (Lotka/Bradford/Zipf), production and trend widgets.

  • Citations: Citation Distribution, Citation Velocity, Disruption Index, …

  • Text & topics: Topic Modeling, Thematic Map/Evolution, Methodology Classifier.

  • Networks: Network Co-occurrence → Plot Bibliometric Network, Field Networks, Citation Network, Co-citation, Bibliographic Coupling, Collaboration.

  • Groups & inference: Group Associations, Compare Means, Permutation Inference, Logistic Regression (with Firth option).

4. Report

Summarise with the Report Generator (HTML/PDF report) or the HTML Dashboard (interactive, single file).

See the Widget reference for details on every widget.