Topic · Data Visualization and Analytics
Most cited papers in Data Visualization and Analytics
What are the most cited papers in Data Visualization and Analytics?
The most cited paper in Data Visualization and Analytics is "Silhouettes: A graphical aid to the interpretation and validation of cluster analysis" (Peter J. Rousseeuw, 1987), with 21,780 citations. Next come "Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping" (21,265) and "bibliometrix : An R-tool for comprehensive science mapping analysis" (15,825).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 992 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silhouettes: A graphical aid to the interpretation and validation of cluster analysis Peter J. Rousseeuw · Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics | Nov 1987 | 21,780 |
| 2 | Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman · Scientometrics | 30 Dec 2009 | 21,265 |
| 3 | bibliometrix : An R-tool for comprehensive science mapping analysis Massimo Aria, Corrado Cuccurullo · Journal of Informetrics | 12 Sep 2017 | 15,825 |
| 4 | Gephi: An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks Mathieu Bastian, Sébastien Heymann, Mathieu Jacomy · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media | 19 Mar 2009 | 11,573 |
| 5 | The Psychophysics Toolbox. David H. Brainard · PubMed | 1997 | 9,189 |
| 6 | Social force model for pedestrian dynamics Dirk Helbing, Péter Molnár · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics | May 1995 | 6,959 |
| 7 | A Design Framework for Instrumenting Analytic Provenance for Problem-Solving Tasks Lingxue Yang, Pierre Morizet‐Mahoudeaux, Anne Guénand et al. · Advances in intelligent systems and computing | 2018 | 6,603 |
| 8 | Graph drawing by force‐directed placement Thomas M. J. Fruchterman, Edward M. Reingold · Software Practice and Experience | Nov 1991 | 6,481 |
| 9 | CiteSpace II: Detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature Chaomei Chen · Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology | 14 Dec 2005 | 6,438 |
| 10 | PsychoPy2: Experiments in behavior made easy Jonathan W. Peirce, Jeremy Gray, Sol Simpson et al. · Behavior Research Methods | Feb 2019 | 5,673 |
| 11 | Categorization and Representation of Physics Problems by Experts and Novices* T. H. Michelene, Paul J. Feltovich, Robert A. Glaser · Cognitive Science | Apr 1981 | 5,269 |
| 12 | The eyes have it: a task by data type taxonomy for information visualizations Ben Shneiderman | 23 Dec 2002 | 4,586 |
| 13 | ggplot2 Hadley Wickham · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Statistics | 4 Feb 2011 | 4,560 |
| 14 | Perception in chess William G. Chase, Herbert A. Simon · Cognitive Psychology | 1973 | 4,403 |
| 15 | Beyond the hype: Big data concepts, methods, and analytics Amir Gandomi, Murtaza Haider · International Journal of Information Management | 2 Dec 2014 | 4,219 |
| 16 | The information available in brief visual presentations. George Sperling · The Psychological Monographs | 1960 | 4,074 |
| 17 | Introduction to Graph Theory J. Fields | 2001 | 4,070 |
| 18 | UpSetR: an R package for the visualization of intersecting sets and their properties Jake R. Conway, Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg · Bioinformatics | 6 Jun 2017 | 4,016 |
| 19 | Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay, Ben Shneiderman | 1999 | 3,971 |
| 20 | Design and natural science research on information technology Salvatore T. March, Gerald F. Smith · Decision Support Systems | Dec 1995 | 3,829 |
| 21 | Information Visualization: Perception for Design Colin Ware | 4 Feb 2000 | 3,779 |
| 22 | Why a Diagram is (Sometimes) Worth Ten Thousand Words Jill H. Larkin, Herbert A. Simon · Cognitive Science | 3 Jan 1987 | 3,630 |
| 23 | Near linear time algorithm to detect community structures in large-scale networks Usha Nandini Raghavan, Réka Albert, Soundar R. T. Kumara · Physical Review E | 11 Sep 2007 | 3,600 |
| 24 | Spatiotemporal energy models for the perception of motion Edward H. Adelson, James R. Bergen · Journal of the Optical Society of America A | Feb 1985 | 3,534 |
| 25 | Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces Jakob Nielsen, Rolf Molich | 1990 | 3,487 |
| 26 | D³ Data-Driven Documents M. G. Bostock, V. I. OGIEVETSKY, Jeffrey Heer · IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics | 4 Nov 2011 | 3,296 |
| 27 | Neural Graph Collaborative Filtering Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He, Meng Wang et al. | 18 Jul 2019 | 3,200 |
| 28 | ForceAtlas2, a Continuous Graph Layout Algorithm for Handy Network Visualization Designed for the Gephi Software Mathieu Jacomy, Tommaso Venturini, Sébastien Heymann et al. · PLoS ONE | 10 Jun 2014 | 3,037 |
| 29 | The aligned rank transform for nonparametric factorial analyses using only anova procedures Jacob O. Wobbrock, Leah Findlater, Darren Gergle et al. | 7 May 2011 | 2,868 |
| 30 | Searching for intellectual turning points: Progressive knowledge domain visualization Chaomei Chen · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 6 Apr 2004 | 2,805 |
| 31 | An algorithm for drawing general undirected graphs Tomihisa Kamada, Satoru Kawai · Information Processing Letters | Apr 1989 | 2,792 |
| 32 | OpenSesame: An open-source, graphical experiment builder for the social sciences Sebastiaan Mathôt, Daniël Schreij, Jan Theeuwes · Behavior Research Methods | 15 Nov 2011 | 2,766 |
| 33 | Temporal networks Petter Holme, Jari Saramäki · Physics Reports | 6 Mar 2012 | 2,699 |
| 34 | UpSet: Visualization of Intersecting Sets Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg, Hendrik Strobelt et al. · IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics | 11 Aug 2014 | 2,610 |
| 35 | The Network Data Repository with Interactive Graph Analytics and Visualization Ryan A. Rossi, Nesreen K. Ahmed · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence | 4 Mar 2015 | 2,497 |
| 36 | Pathview: an R/Bioconductor package for pathway-based data integration and visualization Weijun Luo, Cory Brouwer · Bioinformatics | 4 Jun 2013 | 2,487 |
| 37 | The lumigraph Steven J. Gortler, Radek Grzeszczuk, Richard Szeliski et al. | Aug 1996 | 2,484 |
| 38 | Accelerating t-SNE using tree-based algorithms Laurens van der Maaten | 2014 | 2,392 |
| 39 | Big Data, new epistemologies and paradigm shifts Rob Kitchin · Big Data & Society | Apr 2014 | 2,346 |
| 40 | Which academic search systems are suitable for systematic reviews or meta‐analyses? Evaluating retrieval qualities of Google Scholar, PubMed, and 26 other resources Michael Gusenbauer, Neal Haddaway · Research Synthesis Methods | 15 Oct 2019 | 2,310 |
| 41 | Models of core/periphery structures Stephen P. Borgatti, Martin G. Everett · Social Networks | Oct 2000 | 2,270 |
| 42 | ParaView: An End-User Tool for Large-Data Visualization James Paul Ahrens, Berk Geveci, CHARLES LAW · Elsevier eBooks | 2005 | 2,265 |
| 43 | ggmap: Spatial Visualization with ggplot2 David J. Kahle, Hadley Wickham · The R Journal | 2013 | 2,244 |
| 44 | Stochastic blockmodels and community structure in networks Brian Karrer, Mark E. J. Newman · Physical Review E | 21 Jan 2011 | 2,123 |
| 45 | An image synthesizer Ken Perlin · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics | Jul 1985 | 2,079 |
| 46 | dendextend: an R package for visualizing, adjusting and comparing trees of hierarchical clustering Tal Galili · Bioinformatics | 23 Jul 2015 | 1,988 |
| 47 | Science Mapping: A Systematic Review of the Literature Chaomei Chen · Journal of Data and Information Science | 21 Mar 2017 | 1,954 |
| 48 | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Peter M. Fayers, Edward R. Tufte · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) | 1990 | 1,953 |
| 49 | Computer graphics and graphical user interfaces as tools in simulations of matter at the atomic scale Anton Kokalj · Computational Materials Science | 16 Sep 2003 | 1,922 |
| 50 | DataWarrior: An Open-Source Program For Chemistry Aware Data Visualization And Analysis Thomas Sander, Joël Freyss, Modest von Korff et al. · Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling | 5 Jan 2015 | 1,871 |
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