SciMAT: A new science mapping analysis software tool

By Manuel Jesus Cobo, Antonio Gabriel López-Herrera, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Francisco Herrera. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2012

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Subfields: Information Systems, Information Systems and Management, Statistics and Probability

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Social Life-Cycle Assessment: A Review by Bibliometric Analysis (2020, methodology): “Although SciMAT software is a powerful bibliometric tool, this open-source program is still unable to complete some analyses (i.e., authors affiliations, leading countries in some research fields).”
Science Mapping: A Systematic Review of the Literature (2017, background): “…papers (Mingers & Leydesdorff, 2015; Waltman, 2016), applications of bibliometric studies to specific domains, software tools for science mapping (Cobo et al., 2012), new metrics and indicators (Li et al., 2013), and visual analytic studies of unconventional topics – retractions (Chen et al.,…”
Bibliometric Methods in Management and Organization (2015, neutral): “Developed by a research group at the University of Granada, SciMAT is software that covers the whole workflow of science mapping from data preprocessing to visualization.”
Some bibliometric procedures for analyzing and evaluating research fields (2017, neutral): “Finally, we introduce three free science mapping software tools: CitNetExplorer [64], SciMAT [16] and VOSviewer [63].”
Insights from Circular Economy Literature: A Review of Extant Definitions and Unravelling Paths to Future Research (2021, methodology): “Bibliometric Analysis In this study, bibliometric tools proposed by Aria et al. [20] were used, which are more comprehensive than other tools for science mapping analysis such CitNet Explorer [21], VOSviewer [22], SciMAT [23], and CiteSpace [24].”
Socio-environmental impacts of lithium mineral extraction: towards a research agenda (2018, methodology): “We used the Software SciMAT (Cobo et al 2012) to analyze the title, abstract and authors of literature.”
Industry 4.0: A Bibliometric Review of Its Managerial Intellectual Structure and Potential Evolution in the Service Industries (2019, methodology): “, 2009), Sitkis (Schildt and Mattsson, 2006), and SciMAT (Cobo et al., 2012), in order to reduce the noise embedded in our data.”
Microalgae Water Bioremediation: Trends and Hot Topics (2020, methodology): “Carbon metabolization is needed to microalgae growth and cellular respiration [80] and nitrogen and phosphorous are processed to synthesize essential amino acids and DNA [49].”
Conceptual structure and perspectives on entrepreneurship education research: A bibliometric review (2019, methodology): “After that step, this study analyzed the evolution of the research themes (Cobo et al., 2012).”
Virtual and remote labs in education: A bibliometric analysis (2016, methodology): “To preprocess and analyze the bibliographical data, the open source software tool SciMAT [59] has been used, which is freely available at:”