Golden Orb Analyser is an R project that import and analyse bibliometric files from Scopus and Web of Science. It`s main goal is to provide a quick characterization of a scientific field.

For now you can make it work in a few simple steps:

• Search for your scientific field of interest in Web of Science Core Collection.

• Download all the records obtained from the above mentionned search.

  To download the files :

  • click on the arrow next to Save to EndNote online.
  • click on Save to Other File Formats in the menu that just appeared.
  • enter the required information. Note that you will be able to download only 500 records at the time. Therefore, you will have to repeat that step a few times.
  • in the record content field choose Full Record and Cited References
  • in the file format field choose Tab-delimited (Win/Mac, UTF-8)

• Now for windows, Linux and Mac users alike, you can put all the downloaded files in a folder which you should name WOS_files/. This folder should be in the goldenOrbAnalyser/ directory.

• Now you can open R console or Rstudio or anything else you use.

• In the console you should run setwd('path to goldenOrbAnalyser/') where you replace path to goldenOrAnalyser with the path on your computer.

• Then you can finally open the app.R script and run all lines. Note that you should install the required packages before hand. A list of those is provided at the top of the app.R script. Note that the make_cocitation_table_new() function takes a while and that if you have more then approximatly 7000 records in your WOS_files/ in a computer with 4.00 GB of ram it will abruptly(are not so abruptly because it will lag much) stop the analysis.