CiteSpace found no valid items to display

[Dimitrios Kalderis]

Hello all,

I recently downloaded CiteSpace 5.6 R5 version and started reading all the online papers and other tests as well studied step-by-step the videos uploaded by Prof. Chen.
After a few trial-and-error attempts I managed to get visualizations and clusters for several sets of references (downloaded from Scopus in .ris format). However, today I keep getting the message 'CiteSpace found no valid items to display'.
I lower the threshols but still the same. I also access Scopus from a different browser and download the references from there, but no success. The time limit is correct.

The 1st step I do after I download the .ris file, is place it in the appropriate CiteSpace folder in my C drive.
Then I run CiteSpace, go to 'Data' and 'Import/Export'. I click on the 'Scopus' tab and then click 'Scopus (RIS) to WOS' but I get message

394 records converted from download_food.ris

Total References: 394
Valid References: 0 (0.0%)

Are the 2 messages related ? It appears that CiteSpace can locate the .ris file, but this is corrupted or empty (??).

Any help is greatly appreciated.
kind regards
Dimitris

[Dimitrios Kalderis]

Hi all,
it appears that the problem is fixed. I was downloading the reference list from Scopus in .ris format, but in the 'Export documents settings' page, the square box ' Include references' was not checked.
So, the .ris file I was downloading, contained only the citations themselves and not the references in each of them.

[Chaomei Chen]

Thanks for the update. It looks you found the problem. Yes, to perform citation analysis, your data must contain cited references.

[Rachel]

Hello,
I downloaded version 6.2.R4. I am having this same issue but I have made sure the 'include references' is checked. Do you have any other recommendations?
Thanks!

[Chaomei Chen]

If Scopus is your source, use the CSV export. Do not use the RIS export for now.