Vosviewer keywords mapping
In VOSviewer: you can create a map based on the
- all keywords: all the keywords
- author keywords* – the keywords given by the authors
- key words plus: those extracted from the titles of the cited references by Thomson Reuters. Keywords Plus, generated by an automatic computer algorithm, are words or phrases that appear frequently in the titles of an article’s references and not necessarily in the title of the article or as Author Keywords (Garfield, 1990; Garfield & Sher, 1993).
While you are using the software, understanding the meaning of these keywords types is important to analyse your literature.