DOI files provide increased flexibility and can now also be used to query the Microsoft Academic API.
This version offers improved support for querying APIs. VOSviewer version 1.6.14 was released on January 27, 2020. 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.
This version fixes some problems in VOSviewer's functionality for querying the API of Microsoft Academic. VOSviewer version 1.6.15 was released on April 1, 2020. 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. This version fixes some problems in VOSviewer's functionality for working with data from Dimensions and Semantic Scholar. VOSviewer version 1.6.16 was released on November 25, 2020. More information can be found in this blog post. Support has been added for VOSviewer JSON files, a new file type that provides an alternative for VOSviewer map and network files. Support has been added for creating maps based on files exported from the Lens. Maps will be visualized using the VOSviewer Online tool released last week. Support has been added for sharing maps online. VOSviewer version 1.6.17 was released on July 22, 2021.