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Maka L - 2023-11-19

Citespace unable to process the data either from WoS or Scopus. For the last three days, I have spent hours trying all the possible ways, but there seems to be a problem with the software. I even tried converting Scopus CSV as per Dr. Chen's recommendation but in vain. Any suggestions?Thank you.

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Maka L - 2023-11-19

Cannot find any nodes/links

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Stephan De Spiegeleire - 2023-11-19

It's hard to help if you don't specify what you've tried. I'd recommend watching Chaomei's latest walkthrough video .

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Maka L - 2023-11-19

You are right. I will try to specify all the steps I took:
1. downloaded RIS file from Scopus
2. converted the file in Citespace (input (data) file was named as per the formula - download_* .txt)
3. created a new project; saved it and tried to run it (indicated the folders respectively)
4. the result: no nodes/links found

I repeated all the above steps but this time with CSV from Scopus (as I saw one of Dr. Chen's comments on forum that RIS is not working properly on Scopus, and we can try to convert CSV format). Still didn't work - no links found.

I tried the same with every other format available for export on Scopus - Bibtex, Plain text, Refworks. Nothing

I tried WoS as well - downloaded a plain text with full records and cited references (the result was "no references found").

I uninstalled and reinstalled the software several times hoping that this might fix my problem. Nothing.

I tried to work on another computer with a bigger memory (sorry, I am not that tech-savvy). Still nothing.

I watched Chaomei's videos hundred times :-D

Am I missing something?
Thank you for your time.

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Stephan De Spiegeleire - 2023-11-20

Can you share the ris file?

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Maka L - 2023-11-21

This is downloaded from Scopus and it does not include references.
Thank you.

download_scopus.ris.ris

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Maka L - 2023-11-21

This is a CSV file which contains cited references.

Scopus_csv.rar

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Stephan De Spiegeleire - 2023-11-21

I cannot convert this either...

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Stephan De Spiegeleire - 2023-11-21

Chaomei has released a new version with which I was able to import the file (albeit with a relatively high N of invalid references)
download_Scopus.txt has been converted.
Total References: 360994
Valid References: 341567(94.0%)

Timeslicing the converted file gives
Records Found in Total
10882
Unique Records
10877
Duplicated Records
5
Invalid Records
0
Unique Records by Source
10877

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Maka L - 2023-11-22

Can you kindly attach the converted file?
I will try to run that one.

The new version is 6.2.4.msi , right?

Thank you very much for your time and efforts. Much appreciated.
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- Chaomei Chen - 2023-11-23
  
  You probably missed the step to convert the CSV to a tab-delimited format before running the CSV converter.
  Attached is the converted and duplicates removed file.
  
  converted_uniq.7z
  
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  - Maka L - 2023-11-23
    
    Thank you so much. It worked :-)
    
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Maka L - 2023-11-22

When I try to convert txt file on my pc, Citespace gives me this message:
DataGUI 127: data.properties (Access is denied)

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Raden Trizaldi Prima Alamsyah - 2023-11-26

Hello, I've the same problem. I don't know I've tried to follow the instruction for converting Scopus database into Wos (.csv -> tab-delimited -> WoS) but the result of the conversion is 0 kb when I checked the java script it says missing line... Can you help me to solve this? What should I do in the future? Fyi I use the updated version (at least till 27 Nov 23). Thank you so much

download_2023.csv

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- Chaomei Chen - 2023-11-27
  
  At the beginning of your CSV file, there is "∩╗┐", which is known as a Byte Order Mark (BOM). See the attached image. 6.2.R6 (Advanced) released today (11/26/2023) can take care of this programmatically, but you can mannually remove it with a text editor.
  
  Capture.PNG
  
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  - Raden Trizaldi Prima Alamsyah - 2023-11-27
    
    I'm trying to remove that but I don't understand how to remove that using text editor, do you mind to help me remove the BOM or convert that so I can operate it with this amazing program. I'm still new user here by using the (basic) version. Thank you🙏
    
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    - Chaomei Chen - 2023-11-29
      
      Open the CSV file in Notepad++. If you see UFT-8-BOM at the bottom right corner, remove the BOM as follows:
      Go to the Encoding menu, select UTF-8 and save the file.
      
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Maka L - 2024-09-24

Hello. Could you please help me one more time with the conversion of the file? Again, I cannot run the converted file successfully on CiteSpace. I am attaching here a CSV file. Thank you very much in advance.

scopus.csv

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- Maka L - 2024-10-07
  
  The problem was fixed after downloading a csv file from Scopus again. I repeated everything as I used to but this time it worked. I guess Scopus might have some issues.
  
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