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.