BIVTECI: a bibliographic visualization tool

Relatively little research has been published about bibliographic visualization, although scientists, researchers, and students often have need for such technology. In this paper, we examine the functionality needed to visualize bibliographies e ectively. After reviewing some existing tools, we present BIVTECI (Bibliographic Visualization Tool with Enhanced Citation Interactivity) which derives from our analysis. Our main research goal is to capture the user-required relationships between bibliographic entries or articles. First, a user must understand the chronology of articles. Second, a user needs to see the in uence of articles on later work, i.e., the citation relationships. Third, the user wishes to group articles by speci ed attributes (e.g., title, author, keyword). Fourth, the user needs to examine information at varying levels of detail from general, multi-article views to speci c, single-article ones. Finally, the user may need to use several information views simultaneously. We note that baseline functionality includes simple retrieval of entries by title, author, and keyword. The prototype BIVTECI tool demonstrates e ective solutions for most of these requirements, combining information visualization with manipulation. The article proposes future research into features