BibeR: A Web-based tool for bibliometric analysis in scientific literature

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1 Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
2 Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
3 Laboratoire écologie fonctionnelle et environnement (ECOLAB), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.1879v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Digital Libraries, Graphics, Visual Analytics
Keywords
scientometrics, R, web app, workflow, BibeR, shiny, packages, bibliometrics
Copyright
© 2016 Liu et al.
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Cite this article
Liu Y, Li M. 2016. BibeR: A Web-based tool for bibliometric analysis in scientific literature. PeerJ Preprints 4:e1879v1

Abstract

Bibliometric analysis is a statistical method to summarize the amount of scientific activity in a domain. Insights can be derived from bibliometrics to understand the development trend of the research domain. R is an open sourced programming language specialized for statistical computing and graphic visualization. To benefit from the convenience of R and the outcome of bibliometric analysis, we here introduce BibeR, a web-based application for the visualization of bibliometric analysis. An example of bibliometric analysis on the articles published in journal Scientometrics is used to illustrate the usage of BibeR. The development of BibeR is still in progress, and future possibly improvements on BibeR are discussed.

Author Comment

This work is intended to submit to the journal PeerJ Computer Science.