Tool to visualize connections between bibtex entries

This is possible with the following two tools:

  • Network Workbench (NWB) - http://nwb.cns.iu.edu/

  • Gephi - https://gephi.org/

First, import your .bib file into NWB, then extract the authors, pubs, or whatever through the Scientometrics menu. Finally, right-click on the graph this creates and export it as GraphML.

Now open Gephi and import the GraphML file you just created. With Gephi, you can visualize the interrelationships between authors and citations.


Although I have not used this feature myself, the newest version of biber outputs "to GraphViz instead of .bbl in order to help visualise complex bibliographies with many crossrefs etc."


It looks like a tool that analyzes a given .bib file and visualizes relations between entries like same author or same conference does not yet exist. I could find neither a webservice nor a tool for installation that would do this.

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