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Text Mining for Search Strategy Development

Discover text mining resources and applications for search strategy development in Health Sciences and Medicine

VosViewer


VOSViewer is a tool for constructing and visualising bibliometric networks based on journals, researchers or individual publications. The text mining functionality allows you to visualise co-occurance of terms extracted from a body of literature and may be useful for developing concepts for a search strategy. 

Availability: Download or web launch
(requires Java support)

Data Source: File Import 

Tool Type: Visualisation

Export Formats: .png (screenshot function)

URL: http://www.vosviewer.com/

Voyant Tools


Voyant Tools is a web-based text analysis tool with a variety of functions. Search results from databases can be uploaded to the tool to show word frequency, words in phrases and word trending. 

Availability: Free online, download

Data Source: User input

Tool Type: Text analysis, visualisation, concordancing

Features: Multiple panels and tools to explore the text

Export Formats: Export or save URL only

URL: https://voyant-tools.org

WriteWords


Write Words is phrase frequency counter that allows you to type or paste text into the search box to identify phrases. You are able to check for phrases with up to ten words. The results show the phrases that have been identified and the number of times they appear in the text. 

Availability: Free online

Data Source: User input

Tool Type: Phrase identifier

Features: Simple copy and paste of text

Import Formats: Free text - type, copy and paste

Export Formats: Results on screen

Known Limitations: Unknown text limitation

URL: http://www.writewords.org.uk/phrase_count.asp


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