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Marcos Ferasso - 2022-07-31

Dear Chamoei.
Hope you are doing well. I am a big fan of CiteSpace (congratulations for it!), but I'm facing some problems when converting the RIS file (from Scopus, downloaded all fields), with the old and the newest version (made available today). I tried also with another file that I successfully used in a previous version of CS, but I still cannot fix the problem. It seems the CS is not reading the RIS file properly. Could you please help me? Thank you in advance (attached, the file).
Marcos

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- Chaomei Chen - 2022-07-31
  
  Your setup is probably not quite right. I just converted your file without seeing any issues. See attached.
  
  download_converted_1.txt
  
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Marcos Ferasso - 2022-08-01

Dear Chaomei, thank you so much for your help.
However, using your file as input (Data file), CS is stuck (see screenshot).
For converting the file, I followed this setup:
Current version of CS. Downloaded the RIS format from Scopus (all fields selected for creating the RIS file). Project properties: project home (desktop/Project), data directory (desktop/Project/Data), data source (Scopus), preferred language (English). RIS file copied to Project folder and renamed (download_papers.ris).
Conversion: Scopus, Input (desktop/Project), Output (desktop/Project/Data). Scopus (RIS) > WoS.
The app is stuck and not concludes the conversion.
Thank you in advance all your support! Really appreciated.
Marcos.

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Marcos Ferasso - 2022-08-07

Hello, I finally solved the issues by re-installing and running all the step-by-step. Thank you for your support. Regards,

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- Chaomei Chen - 2022-08-07
  
  Thanks for letting me know. Glad you resolved it.
  
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Akram jahanshahi - 2022-08-08

Hello Dear Chen and Dear Marcos, I have the same problem, it gets stuck and I cannot convert data. can you please guide me how to solve the problem?

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- Marcos Ferasso - 2022-08-08
  
  Hello Akram. Maybe you are using the wrong version of CiteSpace. I noticed that after running tests with the files available. I use Mac, than you need to look if you are using the proper version.
  Another possibility is not renamed properly the RIS file (download_XXX.ris).
  Another one is that you need to convert the data before running the calculations.
  Best luck,
  
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Akram jahanshahi - 2022-08-10

Thank you Marcos, yes I tried another version and it worked. Although this new version has the limitation of 1000 nodes which was not matter in the previous version 5.8.R3! I have all my reports from previous version and just need some reports of centrality and burst, but my work has stopped due to this new limitation

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adrian llumiquinga - 2025-06-25

Dear Professor,

I have purchased the advanced version of Citespace, however, I cannot convert Scopus RIS files because the Scopus (RIS) to WoS button is not active on the conversion screen. Please help. Finally, when converting Scopus CSV files for use in Citespace, the author fields are lost, and the CR field for completing the analyses is missing. Please help, dear Professor.

scopus_488.csv

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- Marcos Ferasso - 2025-06-26
  
  Dear Adrian
  I believe the issue is with the metadata extraction from scopus. Be sure
  that you are building the CSV file with all the fields available on scopus.
  Best regards
  
  Em quarta-feira, 25 de junho de 2025, adrian llumiquinga adrianfls78@users.sourceforge.net escreveu:
  
  Dear Professor,
  
  I have purchased the advanced version of Citespace, however, I cannot
  convert Scopus RIS files because the Scopus (RIS) to WoS button is not
  active on the conversion screen. Please help. Finally, when converting
  Scopus CSV files for use in Citespace, the author fields are lost, and the
  CR field for completing the analyses is missing. Please help, dear
  Professor.
  
  Attachments:
  
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  https://sourceforge.net/p/citespace/discussion/general/thread/1432de5f3e/950a/attachment/scopus_488.csv
  (7.7 MB; text/csv)
  
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  Invited Researcher, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Chile
  
  SCOPUS ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2907-9133
  
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  - Chaomei Chen - 2025-07-03
    
    Thank you Marcos.
    
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    - Marcos Ferasso - 2025-07-03
      
      Thank you so much.
      
      Dr. Marcos Ferasso
      
      Assistant Professor of Business Management, Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
      
      Invited Researcher, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Chile
      
      SCOPUS ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2907-9133
      
      Em qui., 3 de jul. de 2025 às 01:17, Chaomei Chen citespace@users.sourceforge.net escreveu:
      
      Thank you Marcos.
      
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      - adrian llumiquinga - 2025-07-03
        
        Thanks a lot for your help!!!
        
        El jue, 3 de jul de 2025, 05:07, Marcos Ferasso marcosferasso@users.sourceforge.net escribió:
        
        Thank you so much.
        
        Dr. Marcos Ferasso
        
        Assistant Professor of Business Management, Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
        
        Invited Researcher, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Chile
        
        SCOPUS ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2907-9133
        
        Em qui., 3 de jul. de 2025 às 01:17, Chaomei Chen
        citespace@users.sourceforge.net escreveu:
        
        Thank you Marcos.
        
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- Chaomei Chen - 2025-07-03
  
  I have just added a blog to demonstrate the steps of exporting Scopus data to CSV. I hope it helps.
  https://citespace.podia.com/blog/48cc06cd-a615-45e8-9eb4-fcbaff26c424
  
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adrian llumiquinga - 2025-06-25

Dear Professor,

I have purchased the advanced version of Citespace, however, I cannot convert Scopus RIS files because the Scopus (RIS) to WoS button is not active on the conversion screen. Please help. This is the image. I had purchase the 6.4.R2 version

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