Build a Better Lit Review: Introduction to VOSviewer

Learn what VOSviewer is, how it works, and how you can use it to identify key thinkers and schools of thought in literature.

When thousands of scholars have written on a topic, where do you start? Most researchers understand the overwhelming feeling of conducting a thorough literature review. VOSviewer alleviates the pain of conducting a lit review by letting researchers visualize the relationships between their sources. Who cites whom? Whose sources are similar? 

In this workshop, you’ll learn what VOSviewer is, how it works, and how you can use it to identify key thinkers and schools of thought in literature.

Please bring your own laptop.

Open to Graduate Students, Undergraduates, Faculty, Staff, Postdocs

Instructed By
Political Science and Peace Studies Librarian, Mark Robinson
mrobiso2@nd.edu

As the Political Science and Peace Studies Librarian, Mark Robison works with students and faculty in the Department of Political Science, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Keough School of Global Affairs, and elsewhere on campus, to support their research. To connect these students and faculty to the information they need, Mark provides research consultations and delivers library instruction sessions. Mark is also responsible for the development and management of the political science collection.

His research interests include student outreach, transfer student success, and "libraries of things."