VOSviewer Online is a tool for network visualization. It is a web-based version of VOSviewer, a popular tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks.
VOSviewer Online has been developed by Nees Jan van Eck and Ludo Waltman at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University.
The development of VOSviewer Online has benefited from contributions by Olya Stukova and Nikita Rokotyan from Interacta.
The development of VOSviewer Online has been supported financially by Digital Science and Zeta Alpha.
VOSviewer Online has been developed in JavaScript using React, Material-UI, D3, and a few other open source libraries.
Documentation of VOSviewer Online is available here.
VOSviewer Online is distributed under the MIT license.
If you encounter any issues, please report them using the issue tracker on GitHub.
You are welcome to contribute to the development of VOSviewer Online. Please follow the typical GitHub workflow: Fork from this repository and make a pull request to submit your changes. Make sure that your pull request has a clear description and that the code has been properly tested.
The latest stable version of the code is available from the master branch on GitHub. The most recent code, which may be under development, is available from the develop branch.
To run VOSviewer Online locally and to build production-ready bundles, Node.js and npm need to be installed on your system.
Run
npm install
to install all required Node.js packages.
Run
npm run dev
to build a development version and serve it with hot reload at http://localhost:8600.
Run
npm run build
to build a deployment version. The production-ready minified bundle is stored in the dist/ folder.