Signatures and replicability

[Stephan De Spiegeleire]

The option to add signatures containing the most important chosen parameter settings to the visualizations is IMO another one of CiteSpace's great features. I personally also like the fact that they're very much in the background BUT are still present. But wouldn't it be possible to add ALL network-relevant parameters to the signature, including things like Top N%, Top N, what the nodes are, method used for strength of links, the scope of links, pruning - but ALSO the labeling method used, the overall number of clusters, the % of clusters labeled etc. etc.? Because the way things are now, it is virtually impossible to replicate the same visual - for third parties, but even for the users who made these vizzes. And that's especially the case because many of these parameters are not saved with the project properties - also that would, from my point of view, be a very useful improvement.

[Chaomei Chen]

There is actually a function for that purpose - Save Visualization. It will save the current visualization to a .viz file, which can be opened with Visualization > Open Saved Visualization.