Workshop: Data visualization for bibliometric analysis with VOSviewer
When: Friday, February 6, 2026, 12-1:30pm
Register on zoom to attend: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9pYa5bEkSaemujG6oJe1nw
Workshop description: What is the role of bibliometric analysis in our research, and how can data visualization with VOSviewer play a key role in analyzing bibliometric data?
This workshop will provide a brief introduction to the benefits of data visualization for bibliometric analysis before diving into one tool that supports this work. City Tech Librarian Jen Hoyer will guide attendees through use of VOSviewer, an open source data visualization tool, to demonstrate how bibliometric analysis can help examine questions including: what are the main topics or research areas in a field? How do these relate to each other? How has a specific field developed over time?
After an introduction to bibliometric analysis and data visualization, we’ll dive into VOSviewer and its core features. Attendees will have an opportunity to watch demonstrations of the tool in use and to walk through the steps of creating visualizations themselves with a sample dataset (provided).
Attendees should download and install the free VOSviewer software in advance of the workshop if they wish to follow along on their own computer; this is encouraged but not mandatory. Versions for various operating systems can be downloaded at https://www.vosviewer.com/download.Â