Link‑based approach to study scientific software usage : the case of VOSviewer

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dc.contributor.authorOrduna‑Malea, Enriqueen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorCostas, Rodrigoen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-03T07:56:49Z
dc.date.available2023-04-03T07:56:49Z
dc.date.issued2021-07
dc.descriptionCITATION: Orduna-Malea, E. & Costas, R. 2021. Link‑based approach to study scientific software usage : the case of VOSviewer. Scientometrics, 126:8153–8186, doi:610.1007/s11192-021-04082-y.
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at https://link.springer.com
dc.description.abstractScientific software is a fundamental player in modern science, participating in all stages of scientific knowledge production. Software occasionally supports the development of trivial tasks, while at other instances it determines procedures, methods, protocols, results, or conclusions related with the scientific work. The growing relevance of scientific software as a research product with value of its own has triggered the development of quantitative science studies of scientific software. The main objective of this study is to illustrate a link-based webometric approach to characterize the online mentions to scientific software across different analytical frameworks. To do this, the bibliometric software VOSviewer is used as a case study. Considering VOSviewer’s official website as a baseline, online mentions to this website were counted in three different analytical frameworks: academic literature via Google Scholar (988 mentioning publications), webpages via Majestic (1,330 mentioning websites), and tweets via Twitter (267 mentioning tweets). Google scholar mentions shows how VOSviewer is used as a research resource, whilst mentions in webpages and tweets show the interest on VOSviewer’s website from an informational and a conversational point of view. Results evidence that URL mentions can be used to gather all sorts of online impacts related to non-traditional research objects, like software, thus expanding the analytical scientometric toolset by incorporating a novel digital dimension.en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipe South African DST‐NRF Center of Excellence in Scientometrics and Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (SciSTIP)
dc.description.versionPublisher's version
dc.format.extent34 pages
dc.identifier.citationOrduna-Malea, E. & Costas, R. 2021. Link‑based approach to study scientific software usage : the case of VOSviewer. Scientometrics, 126:8153–8186, doi:610.1007/s11192-021-04082-y.
dc.identifier.issn1588-2861 (online)
dc.identifier.issn0138-9130 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:610.1007/s11192-021-04082-y
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/126755
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rights.holderAuthors retain copyright
dc.subject.lcshComputer science -- Information storage and retrieval systems
dc.subject.lcshComputer programs -- Information storage and retrieval systems
dc.subject.lcshCommunication in learning and scholarship
dc.subject.lcshWebometrics
dc.subject.lcshInformation science -- Statistical methods
dc.subject.lcshComputer networks
dc.subject.lcshInformation visualization – Computer programs
dc.titleLink‑based approach to study scientific software usage : the case of VOSvieweren_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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