HistCite^® Features

HistCite has a wide array of features to help you analyze and visualize your bibliography.

Analytical Features

• Complete author list with papers published and citation ranks.
• Complete journal list with papers published and citation ranks.
• Complete list of countries of origin of papers published and citation ranks
• Complete list of institutions of origin of papers published and citation ranks
• Complete list of departments within institutions of origin of papers published and citation ranks.
• Compiled list of title words
• Compiled list of all cited references. This can be used to identify article important to the topic of your collection that were not picked up by your search.
• Analysis by year of publication
• Analysis by language of publication
• Analysis by document type (research article, review, letter, etc.)

Search, Filter, Tag and Export

• HistCite contains a search engine that allows you to search for records that meet your criteria.
• HistCite allows you to click on any title word, author or journal name to see a filtered list of records that contain that search term.
• You can save your subsets of records by adding custom-named tags to the records.
• Subsets of records can be exported from collections for further analysis.

Graphical

• The HistCite Graph Maker allows you to create historiographs  — graphical representations of  the historical development of a research field — of selected articles within your collection.

Editing

HistCite has several built in features to make editing your data collection easy.

• Edit multiple records simultaneously to unify spelling variations in authors, addresses, or cited records.
• Add records manually into your collection. This is useful if you want to add books or other document types that are not indexed in the Web of Science.
• Automatically search and download records from the Web of Science to add to the collection.

Output

HistCite outputs subsets of data in many different formats for analysis in other programs, for incorporation into publications and presentations, and for presentation on web sites.

• Excel-compatible comma-separated value files from all analytical tables.
• High-quality graphics from Graph Maker.
• Subsets of network data compatible with widely used network analysis programs such as Pajek or NetDraw.
• Complete or selected HTML presentations of your analysis suitable for presentation on a web site.