RefViz

March 11th, 2004 Stewart Posted in Uncategorized |

I recently received a training copy of RefViz, and I think I’m beginning to get the hang of it. For researchers working on review articles, book chapters, or evidence-based research, I think this will prove to be a valuable tool.

RefViz takes any database of references (like an EndNote Library or Reference Manager database) and culls through it, indexing and organizing the information by examining the title, keywords and abstracts. What you end up with is a “map” of sorts, a visual representation of these articles as if you had taken the time to sort them into stacks on the floor.

Data mining tools such as this are commonplace enough in bioinformatics, but somewhat new to the world of bibliographic information. I’ll post more about RefViz in the coming days.