Export Formats Reference

Every export option in BibexPy is labeled with the downstream tools it targets. This page is the full compatibility matrix.

Reference / bibliometric formats

| Format | Extension | Best for | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | WoS plain text | .txt | VOSviewer, Biblioshiny, CiteSpace | ISI tagged format (FN/PT/…/ER); the most interoperable choice | | VOSviewer TSV | .txt | VOSviewer corpus import | Tab-separated with VOSviewer's expected headers | | BibTeX | .bib | LaTeX, JabRef, Zotero, Mendeley | Cited references included where available | | RIS | .ris | EndNote, Zotero, most managers | Standard RIS tags |

Tabular / generic formats

| Format | Extension | Best for | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Excel | .xlsx | Manual review, pivot tables | One row per record, all fields as columns | | CSV | .csv | R, Python (pandas), Gephi | UTF-8, comma-separated | | TSV | .tsv | Tools that dislike comma quoting | UTF-8, tab-separated |

Field coverage

Exports carry the harmonized values: disambiguated author names, rolled-up organizations, standardized countries, enriched DOIs/abstracts/categories. Field tags follow WoS conventions (AU, TI, SO, PY, DE, ID, C1, CR, TC, DI, …) with Scopus values mapped onto them during the merge.

Choosing a format

• VOSviewer co-authorship / co-citation → WoS plain text (CR preserved).
• Biblioshiny → WoS plain text.
• CiteSpace → WoS plain text ("download_*.txt" naming works).
• Reference manager import → RIS (broadest) or BibTeX (LaTeX users).
• Custom scripts / statistics → CSV or TSV.