Modify node label on-the-fly

[akastrin]

Dear Professor,

I wonder how to modify node label on a visualized network. The problem is that a few nodes are labelled as "Surname Name (year)" (e.g., Kastrin Andrej (2020)) while other nodes are labeled as "Surname N (year)" (e.g., Kastrin A (2020)).

Any advice is appreciated.

Regards, Andrej

[Chaomei Chen]

You should use alias to merge them and re-build the visualization. Right-click on a node, near the bottom of the pop-up list, you will see Primary Alias, which means to keep its label, or Secondary Alias, which means its label will be replaced by the Primary label instead. Then press the GO button again. A file citespace.alias will be generated in your project folder. You can modify it as a text file, esp. when you have many items to change.