Fost Viewer
Darth Gupta
VOSviewer version 1.6.20 was released on October 31, 2023. This version offers improved features for creating maps based on data downloaded through APIs. It also supports creating maps based on data exported from Scopus in the new Scopus file format.
VOSviewer version 1.6.19 was released on January 23, 2023. This version offers a number of improvements in VOSviewer's support for creating maps based on OpenAlex data. It also fixes some problems in creating maps based on Web of Science data.
VOSviewer version 1.6.16 was released on November 25, 2020. This version fixes some problems in VOSviewer's functionality for working with data from Dimensions and Semantic Scholar. It also offers new functionality for querying the Microsoft Academic API using author, affiliation, and journal IDs and for creating term co-occurrence maps based on Semantic Scholar data.
VOSviewer version 1.6.15 was released on April 1, 2020. This version fixes some problems in VOSviewer's functionality for querying the API of Microsoft Academic. It also offers a few new options for querying the Microsoft Academic API, including options for searching in abstracts and for filtering out duplicate documents and non-scientific content.
VOSviewer version 1.6.14 was released on January 27, 2020. This version offers improved support for querying APIs. DOI files provide increased flexibility and can now also be used to query the Microsoft Academic API. The title search option for querying the Crossref API has been repaired. Also, security issues on Mac systems have been fixed.
February 29, 2020. A bug has been discovered in VOSviewer's functionality for creating citation and bibliographic coupling maps based on Microsoft Academic data. This bug will be fixed in an update of VOSviewer that we expect to be released soon. In the meantime, we recommend not to use VOSviewer's functionality for creating citation and bibliographic coupling maps based on Microsoft Academic data.
October 16, 2019. There are problems with VOSviewer's support for the APIs of Crossref and Microsoft Academic. In the case of the Crossref API, searching in titles of documents is not possible at the moment. The Microsoft Academic API doesn't work at all. We hope these problems will be fixed soon.
August 13, 2018. On many Windows systems, the Windows Defender software currently indicates that the Windows version of VOSviewer causes a security threat. This warning is incorrect. We are in contact with Microsoft's Windows Defender team to solve this problem. As a temporary solution, you may use the VOSviewer version for other systems.
May 29, 2018. Many users of VOSviewer have reported problems in working with CSV files exported from Scopus. These problems are caused by bugs in the export functionality of Scopus. The Scopus team is working on fixing these bugs. In the meantime, we recommend to make use of other data sources, such as Web of Science, PubMed, or Crossref.
March 22, 2019. Many users of VOSviewer have reported problems in working with CSV files exported from Scopus. These problems are caused by issues in the export functionality of Scopus. We are working together with the Scopus team to fix these issues.
VOSviewer version 1.6.9 was released on August 29, 2018. This version offers support for data exported from Dimensions. Data from Dimensions can be used to create co-authorship, citation, and bibliographic coupling maps. More information is available here.
VOSviewer version 1.6.8 was released on April 27, 2018. This version offers a number of smaller improvements. In particular, the algorithms for creating citation-based maps have been improved and support for creating maps of organizations has been extended.
On January 23-26, 2024, CWTS organizes the next edition of its VOSviewer course. The course takes place online. Participants will learn about all ins and outs of VOSviewer. The course is taught by the VOSviewer developers and includes a lot of hands-on practice with the software.
VOSviewer Online is a web-based version of VOSviewer. It runs in a web browser and can be used to share interactive visualizations and to embed these visualizations in online platforms. More information can be found in this blog post.
CitNetExplorer is a software tool for visualizing and analyzing citation networks of scientific publications. Citation networks can be explored interactively, for instance by drilling down into a network and by identifying clusters of closely related publications.
It started as an addition to the Idols format that was based on Pop Idol from British television, in which the programme's first series, which was won by Will Young, ended over four months before the show began, as it later became one of the most successful shows in the history of American television. The concept of the series involves discovering recording stars from unsigned singing talents, with the winner determined by American viewers using phones, Internet platforms, and SMS text voting. The winners of the first twenty-two seasons, as chosen by viewers, are Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks, Jordin Sparks, David Cook, Kris Allen, Lee DeWyze, Scotty McCreery, Phillip Phillips, Candice Glover, Caleb Johnson, Nick Fradiani, Trent Harmon, Maddie Poppe, Laine Hardy, Just Sam, Chayce Beckham, Noah Thompson, Iam Tongi, and Abi Carter.
American Idol employs a select panel of judges who critique the contestants' performances. The original judges, for seasons one through eight, were record producer and music manager Randy Jackson, singer and choreographer Paula Abdul, and music executive and manager Simon Cowell. The judging panel for the last three seasons on Fox consisted of singers Keith Urban, Jennifer Lopez, and Harry Connick Jr.[1] Season sixteen brought three new judges: singers Lionel Richie, Katy Perry, and Luke Bryan. The show has been hosted by television presenter Ryan Seacrest throughout its run, apart from the show's inaugural season when comedian Brian Dunkleman joined Seacrest as co-host.
In 2001, Fuller, Cowell, and TV producer Simon Jones attempted to sell the Pop Idol format to the United States, but the idea was initially met with poor responses from all the television networks including UPN and Fox.[9] However, Rupert Murdoch, head of Fox's parent company, was later persuaded to buy the series by his daughter, Elisabeth, who had seen the British show.[9] Although Fox's executives wanted to change the format, Murdoch insisted that it should remain the same as the British one. One change was nevertheless made due to the presence of multiple time zones in the United States that made it impractical for the country to vote in the same time period, an additional half-hour results show was therefore added the day following the performance show.[10] The show was renamed American Idol: The Search for a Superstar and debuted in the summer of 2002. Cowell was initially offered the job of showrunner, but turned down the offer; Lythgoe then took over that position. Much to the surprise of Cowell and Fox, it became one of the biggest shows of the summer.[11][12] With its successful launch in the summer, the show was then moved to January and expanded.[13] The show grew into a phenomenon largely due to its personal engagement with the contestants by prompting the viewers to vote, and the presence of the acid-tongued Cowell as a judge. By 2004, it had become the most-watched show on U.S. television, a position it then held for seven consecutive seasons until 2011.[14][15]
The show had originally planned on having four judges following the Pop Idol format; however, only three judges had been found by the time of the audition round in the first season, namely Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell.[9] A fourth judge, radio DJ Stryker, was originally chosen but he dropped out citing "image concerns."[22] In the second season, New York radio personality Angie Martinez had been hired as a fourth judge but withdrew only after a few days of auditions due to not being comfortable with giving out criticism.[23] The show decided to continue with the three judges format until the eighth season. All three original judges stayed on the judging panel for eight seasons.
In the eighth season, Latin Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter and record producer Kara DioGuardi was added as a fourth judge. Abdul left the show in 2009 after the eighth season as a result of failing to agree to terms with the show producers.[24] Emmy Award-winning talk show host Ellen DeGeneres replaced Abdul for the ninth season, but left in 2010 after just one season.[25] DioGuardi was let go from American Idol in 2010 after two seasons as producers favored a return to the three-person judge panel previously used prior to DioGuardi's appearance on the show.[26] Cowell also left the show in 2010 to introduce the American version of his show The X Factor for 2011.[27] Jackson was the only judge from the ninth season to return for the tenth.
Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler joined the judging panel in the tenth season,[28] but both left in 2012 after two seasons.[29] Jackson was the only judge from the eleventh season to return for the twelfth. They were replaced by three new judges, Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, and Keith Urban, who joined Jackson in the twelfth season.[30] However, both Carey and Minaj left after one season,[31] and Jackson departed the show after twelve seasons as a judge but would return as a mentor for the thirteenth season in 2014, after which he left the show permanently.[32][33]
Urban was the only judge from the twelfth season to return as a judge for the thirteenth season. Lopez returned to American Idol for the thirteenth season and was joined by former mentor Harry Connick Jr.[1] After this, Lopez, Urban, and Connick Jr. remained on the show until its cancellation after the fifteenth season in 2016.[34][35]
When the show was revived by ABC in 2018, Katy Perry,[36] Luke Bryan[37] and Lionel Richie[38] were selected as judges, marking the sixteenth season of Idol. Bryan and Richie have remained on the show since, while Perry left the show in May 2024 after seven seasons.[39]
c80f0f1006