RTVis: Research Trend Visualization Toolkit

TL;DR

RTVis is an open-source toolkit that visualizes research trends through various dynamic diagrams, aiding researchers in understanding evolving fields and identifying topics of interest in real-time.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive visualization toolkit combining multiple visualizations to analyze research trends and is easy to deploy and access.

Findings

Provides real-time visualization of research trends

Includes multiple visualization components for comprehensive analysis

Open source and easy to use

Abstract

When researchers are about to start a new project or have just entered a new research field, choosing a proper research topic is always challenging. To help them have an overall understanding of the research trend in real-time and find out the research topic they are interested in, we developed the Research Trend Visualization toolkit (RTVis) to analyze and visualize the research paper information. RTVis consists of a field theme river, a co-occurrence network, a specialized citation bar chart, and a word frequency race diagram, showing the field change through time, cooperating relationship among authors, paper citation numbers in different venues, and the most common words in the abstract part respectively. Moreover, RTVis is open source and easy to deploy. The demo of our toolkit and code with detailed documentation are both available online.