During the epidemic period, in order to improve the enthusiasm of graduate students for home-based study and exchange, and to better share life details and research wisdom, the Graduate Student Union of The Institute of Science and Technology Information held an online academic salon with the theme of “CiteSpace Academic Literature Measurement Operation Practice”on the afternoon of April 29, 2020. In this activity, Dr. Su Wencheng was invited as the guest to share his basic operation and some experience of CiteSpace software.
Living Library is a reading concept originated from Copenhagen, Denmark. It is an activity for readers to “borrow”a real person to talk with and gain more knowledge. Compared with paper books, the advantage of human library is that it provides human books with rich practical experience, which is usually unavailable from reading books. Due to the epidemic this year, the interactive form of human library activities has changed from face-to-face interaction to online interaction.
Dr. Su Wencheng shared CiteSpace, a basic visual citation analysis software used in his major, in four parts: introduction to CiteSpace software, basic operation of CiteSpace software, data acquisition and processing and common analysis functions of CiteSpace. On how to install CiteSpace software, analyze data sources, export and save, commonly used analysis indicators and specific operation examples of the software, a wonderful and detailed sharing was made for the first-year students.
In the online academic sharing, Dr. Su not only introduced the basic operation method of using CiteSpace software in detail, but also put forward many details that should be paid attention to when using CiteSpace software, which of great help and benefit to postgraduate students. After the online sharing, students also actively raised their doubts about using CiteSpace software and Dr. Su patiently answered them.
Through this online living library activity, students had a deeper understanding of CiteSpace software, which helped students in their research and study even during the epidemic.
