Step 4 · Export

Produce analysis-ready files for the tools you actually use — every format is labeled with the downstream software it targets.

Export screen — Reference/bibliometric and tabular formats with explicit tool-compatibility guidance.

Available formats

| Format | File | Works with | | --- | --- | --- | | WoS plain text | .txt | VOSviewer, Biblioshiny, CiteSpace — anything that reads ISI tagged format | | VOSviewer TSV | .txt | VOSviewer (direct corpus import) | | BibTeX | .bib | LaTeX, Zotero, JabRef, Mendeley | | RIS | .ris | EndNote, Zotero, reference managers | | Excel | .xlsx | Manual inspection, custom analysis | | CSV / TSV | .csv / .tsv | R, Python, Gephi, any tabular pipeline |

See the full compatibility matrix in Export Formats.

Export options

Filtered or full — export the current filter selection or the entire dataset.
Tool-labeled cards — each format shows the logos of the tools it feeds, so you never guess which file VOSviewer wants.
Audit-logged — every export is recorded with its parameters (format, filter state, record count), so your manuscript numbers are always reconstructable.

Round-trip safe

Exports preserve the harmonized field values — the methodology narrative in Report documents exactly which preparation steps produced the file you analyzed.