Thomson Reuters

Today's academicians, students and researchers are faced with an overwhelming amount of information to review. RefViz is text analysis and visualization software designed to facilitate the comprehension of literature. Whether you're getting an overview of literature in your field, doing research for peer review, or writing a review article, exploratory reference searches are easier and more productive using RefViz.

"RefViz actually pointed out references I had missed despite extensive research."

--John Ward, San Jose State University

With RefViz, you can:

• Search for and visually analyze reference literature instantly.
• Evaluate large results sets quickly¿uncover trends and associations in references.
• Retain important references lost when narrowing a search or skimming a list.
• Use with EndNote® and Reference Manager to publish results faster.

Why choose RefViz?

• An unbiased review: 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 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).
• Searches multiple online sources with one query and creates a new visualization instantly.
• Delivers overviews of literature search results from popular databases such as Web of Science, OCLC, and PubMed, or bibliographic management software - EndNote® and Reference Manager.
• Provides an additional level of analysis: Used together with EndNote® and Reference Manager, RefViz provides an additional level of analysis to existing reference collections and lets users find the most relevant citations for their papers.

Windows:

• Windows® 2000, XP
• Pentium 3 or higher, 1 GHz recommended
• 256MB RAM recommended
• 1GB free disk space
• 1024x768 monitor resolution

Mac OS X:

• 10.3 or later
• Power Mac G5 (runs slower on G4)
• Note: RefViz requires JAVA 1.4.2 or later
• 256 MB RAM
• 1GB free disk space

• ISI Web of Knowledge: Quickly find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities with this premier research platform. Whether you're writing a paper, looking for potential collaborators, analyzing research performance or evaluating your library's collection, ISI Web of Knowledge is built to accommodate your style of discovery and analysis.
• Web of Science: Provides quick, powerful access to the world's leading citation databases, with authoritative, multidisciplinary coverage from nearly 9,300 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage available to 1900.
• EndNote: Millions of researchers, scholarly writers, students and librarians depend on this full-featured desktop edition to make creating bibliographies easy and efficient. Users can create multiple libraries of unlimited size and manage images and PDF files along with references. EndNote can be used out of the box or customized easily.
• Reference Manager: Reference Manager is the powerful bibliographic solution for workgroups, networks and collaborative projects. Search online databases, organize references easily, publish references on the Internet, and watch your bibliography appear as you write.