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Nees Jan van Eck, PhD

Nees Jan van Eck is senior researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. His research focuses on the development of visualization tools and algorithms, mainly for analyzing the structure and development of science. Nees Jan has published numerous scientific articles on this topic. The VOSviewer tool developed by Nees Jan (together with Ludo Waltman) is widely used by researchers in the field of bibliometrics and scientometrics. In 2010, Nees Jan received his PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Many of the techniques used in the VOSviewer tool were originally introduced in his PhD thesis. In addition to his visualization research, Nees Jan also manages the IT department of CWTS.

See also Nees Jan's personal website.

 

Publications

Journal publications (51)

Conference publications (23)

  • Waltman, L., & Van Eck, N.J. (2016). The need for contextualized scientometric analysis: An opinion paper. In Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (pp. 541-549).
  • Waltman, L., & Van Eck, N.J. (2015). Field-normalized citation impact indicators and the choice of an appropriate counting method. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (pp. 328-339).
  • Caron, E., & Van Eck, N.J. (2014). Large scale author name disambiguation using rule-based scoring and clustering. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (pp. 79-86).
  • Van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2014). CitNetExplorer: A new software tool for analyzing and visualizing citation networks. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (pp. 181-192).
  • Zahedi, Z., & Van Eck, N.J. (2014). Visualizing readership activity of Mendeley users using VOSviewer. In altmetrics14: expanding impacts and metrics - An ACM Web Science Conference 2014 Altmetrics Workshop. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.1041819.
  • Waltman, L., & Van Eck, N.J. (2013). A systematic empirical comparison of different approaches for normalizing citation impact indicators. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (pp. 1649-1664).
  • Waltman, L., Wouters, P., & Van Eck, N.J. (2013). Counting publications and citations: Is more always better? 14th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Vienna. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (pp. 455-467).
  • Tijssen, R.J.W., Waltman, L., & Van Eck, N.J. (2012). Research collaboration and the expanding science grid: Measuring globalization processes worldwide. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (pp. 779-790).
  • Waltman, L., & Van Eck, N.J. (2012). Constructing a publication-level classification system of science. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (pp. 803-814).
  • Waltman, L., Calero-Medina, C.M., Kosten, M.J.F., Noyons, E.C.M., Tijssen, R.J.W., Van Eck, N.J., Van Leeuwen, T.N., Van Raan, A.F.J., Visser, M.S., & Wouters, P. (2012). The Leiden Ranking 2011/2012: Data collection, indicators, and interpretation. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (pp. 791-802).
  • Luwel, M.J.J., Noyons, E.C.M., & Van Eck, N.J. (2011). A comparative bibliometric analysis of the STI and the ISSI conference series. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (pp. 505-514).
  • Van Eck, N.J., Tijssen, R.J.W., & Waltman, L. (2011). Globalization of public-private research in worldwide science: co-publication trends and geographical distances between research partners . In Proceedings of the 2011 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy.
  • Van Eck, N.J., Waltman, L., & Tijssen, R.J.W. (2011). Globalization of science: Geographical distance measurements of research collaboration. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (pp. 181-186).
  • Van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2009). VOSviewer: A computer program for bibliometric mapping . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics.
  • Van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2009). VOSviewer: A computer program for bibliometric mapping. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (pp. 886-897).
  • Waltman, L., & Van Eck, N.J. (2009). A Taxonomy of Bibliometric Performance Indicators Based on the Property of Consistency. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (pp. 1002-1003).
  • Van Eck, N.J., Frasincar, F., & Chang, D. (2008). Cluster-based visualization of concept associations. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Visualisation (pp. 409-414).
  • Kruse, R., Borgelt, C., Nauck, D.D., Van Eck, N.J., & Steinbrecher, M. (2007). The role of soft computing in intelligent data analysis. In Final Program and Abstracts of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (pp. 9-17).
  • Soni, A., Van Eck, N.J., & Kaymak, U. (2007). Prediction of stock price movements based on concept map information. In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making (pp. 205-211). doi:10.1109/MCDM.2007.369438.
  • Van Eck, N.J., Frasincar, F., & Van den Berg, J. (2006). Visualizing concept associations using concept density maps. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Visualisation (pp. 270-275). doi:10.1109/IV.2006.128.
  • Van Eck, N.J., Waltman, L., Van den Berg, J., & Kaymak, U. (2006). Visualizing the WCCI 2006 knowledge domain. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (pp. 1671-1678). doi:10.1109/FUZZY.2006.1681931.
  • Van Eck, N.J., Waltman, L., & Van den Berg, J. (2005). A novel algorithm for visualizing concept associations. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (pp. 405-409). doi:10.1109/DEXA.2005.23.
  • Van den Berg, J., Van Eck, N.J., Waltman, L., & Kaymak, U. (2004). A VICORE architecture for intelligent knowledge management. In Proceedings of the KDNet Symposium on Knowledge-Based Services for the Public Sector (pp. 63-74).

Book chapters (3)

  • Van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2014). Visualizing bibliometric networks. In Y. Ding, R. Rousseau, & D. Wolfram (Eds.), Measuring Scholarly Impact (pp. 285-320). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-10377-8_13.
  • Soni, A., Van Eck, N.J., & Kaymak, U. (2013). Predicting stock price movements from concept map information. In N.S. Thomaidis, & G.H. Dash (Eds.), Recent Advances in Computational Finance (pp. 173-186). Nova Science Publishers.
  • Van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2007). VOS: A new method for visualizing similarities between objects. In R. Decker, & H.J. Lenz (Eds.), Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization (pp. 299-306). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-70981-7_34.

Senior researcher and head of ICT

T: +31 71 527 3909

E: ecknjpvan@cwts.leidenuniv.nl

W: www.neesjanvaneck.nl


ORCID: 0000-0001-8448-4521

ResearcherID: B-6042-2008

Scopus Author ID: 14632651000

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