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What is VOSviewer?

VOSviewer is an essential software tool for conducting Bibliometric-Systematic Literature Reviews, particularly for performing bibliometric analyses.

VOS (an acronym for Visualization of Similarities) viewer has been developed by Nees Jan van Eck and Ludo Waltman at Leiden University's Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS). It offers powerful visualization capabilities for mapping and analyzing co-citation networks, keyword co-occurrences, and other key relationships within academic literature. 

Example Bibliometric Visualization: