RefViz 2
Visualizing and analyzing your reference collection
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Learn more about what is happening in the literature with RefViz. With this powerful text analysis and visualization software program, you get an intuitive framework for exploring reference collections based on content. RefViz provides an at-a-glance overview and reveals trends and associations in references-now you can retain important references otherwise lost when narrowing a search or skimming a list.
- RefViz allows you to cast a wider net when searching the literature, broaden your understanding of a field, and easily focus on areas of interest.
- RefViz enables you to search multiple data sources simultaneously within RefViz.
- RefViz creates overviews of literature search results from popular databases such as ISI Web of Science, OCLC, and PubMed; or bibliographic management software-EndNote, ProCite and Reference Manager.
- Used together with EndNote, ProCite, and Reference Manager, RefViz provides an additional level of analysis to existing reference collections and lets you find the most relevant citations for your papers.
How does it work?
RefViz processes each dataset with an unbiased review of all terms found in the title and abstract/notes fields. It essentially groups the literature the same way you would stack papers. Two visualizations are provided to review the literature: the galaxy and the matrix.The Galaxy View
RefViz analyzes large numbers of references by thematic content and presents an at-a-glance overview of the main topics discussed in the reference set. The Galaxy view organizes references into groups according to how they are related conceptually.
The Galaxy view shows the results of searching for a term throughout the dataset.
The Matrix View
RefViz highlights associations between terms by presenting a review of which subjects tend to be discussed together in the literature (terms vs. terms), or an overview of the major concepts discussed across groups (terms vs. groups).The Matrix View
Red cells at the intersection of the columns and rows indicate the corresponding terms are often discussed together in the reference set. Blue cells indicate few references contain both terms. White cells indicate no significant association in either direction.
New! Reference Retriever
Search multiple online sources simultaneously and eliminate duplicates automatically.
Select from the following online sources:Reference Retriever
- Web of Science
- PubMed
- OVID-MEDLINE, ERIC
- OCLC-MEDLINE, ERIC, PsycINFO
- Library of Congress
- Purdue University
Or configure additional online sources easily.
Publish your results faster
- Create overviews of literature search results from popular databases such as ISI Web of Science, OCLC, and PubMed, or bibliographic management software-EndNote, ProCite and Reference Manager.
- Used together with EndNote, ProCite, and Reference Manager, RefViz provides an additional level of analysis to existing reference collections and lets you find the most relevant citations for your papers.
New Features in Version 2
Reference Retriever
- Search multiple online databases simultaneously within RefViz
- Select from the following online sources:
- Web of Science
- PubMed
- OVID-MEDLINE and ERIC
- OCLC-MEDLINE, ERIC and PsycINFO
- Library of Congress
- Purdue University
- New and updated online connection files can be found at www.refviz.com
- Eliminate duplicate references from different online databases automatically
- Download large results in the background and RefViz will let you know when it's finished!
- Configure additional data sources to include in searches
User interaction with views
- Improved alerts for data handling and access to available network drives
- Rename the entire label for subset and reprocessed views
- Export a view for sharing with colleagues-simplify collaboration
- Launch views from .xpt files automatically
- Identify highlighted references in the Reference Viewer with a new color setting
Topic/Search window
- Review changes to the major, minor and other descriptive terms structure using new text colors to see easily how terms are used in a visualization
- Search a view using a new selection that queries the title and abstract fields used to visualize the data-save steps creating a search
Other enhancements
- Expanded Thesaurus provides improves the ability to identify equivalent terms
- Retain customized Thesaurus entries from previous versions of RefViz
What are the reviewers saying?
"[Reference Retriever] makes fast but deep 'fishing trip' literature searches across the internet productive and feasible."
-- Felix Grant, Scientific Computing World, May/June 2005
"Academicians, life science researchers, and analysts will derive maximum benefits from this well-designed utility. Clinicians should familiarize themselves with this new concept; it has potential for major applications in bedside and clinical healthcare."
-- Saty Satya-Murti, Journal of the American Medical Association, February 18, 2004
"RefViz can deliver a fresh perspective on the structure and content of scientific literature."
-- Brian Simboli and Min Zhang, Science, February 6, 2004
"I approached RefViz with a certain degree of scepticism, never having been convinced of the value of visualization, but I have been won over."
-- Tom Wilson, Information Research, September/October 2003
"RefViz is an amazing program. Just imaging being able to visually explore literature references. RefViz analyzes large numbers of references by thematic content and then presents an at-a-glance overview of the main topics discussed in the reference set. When I first saw what RefViz can do, I was amazed, and also very impressed with the power hidden beneath the program's very user-friendly interface."
-- Dale Farris, Golden Triangle PC Club Wire, October 8, 2003
"The launch of RefViz by Thomson's ISI ResearchSoft confirms a trend towards visualization techniques in reporting search results.
The problem with search results-even to good, scientifically-constructed, precisely formulated keyword questions-is that the answers are often too great to comprehend.[...] And if you are searching for quite precise purposes-in order to create a bibliography for a research paper for example-then the time spent sorting through results is out of all proportion to the time spent finding them in the first place.
The Thomson announcement ... directly addresses the workflow problems of the academic community, faced with issues surrounding the compilation of bibliographies, reading lists, grant proposals etc., and at $300 it is priced like an individual user product, not a major system installation."
-- David Worlock, Chairman. EPS Insights, 24 September 2003