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Questions to the article: Generating clustered journal maps: an automated system for hierarchical classification

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The article published on January 3 in 2017 is well-written and of interest, but remains several questions that are required for clarifications, such as the production of ten clusters of 11,359 journals based on 2015 data using VOSviewer for classification and visualization. After viewing the detailed information about the data in Fig. 1, we are interested in producing the similar Figure on a dashboard with a video MP4 provided to readers who can click on the link to manipulate the scenarios on their own. We found that the process of making diagram of social network analysis on Google Maps using the MS Excel VBA codes. The individual-/cluster-type relations of journals are easily examined on Google Maps.

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  1. Department of Optometry, Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology, Jen-Teh, Tainan City, Taiwan

    Shu-Chun Kuo

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Yong Kang, Tainan, Taiwan

    Shu-Chun Kuo

  3. Medical Research Department, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Yung Kung Dist., 901 Chung Hwa Road, Tainan, 710, Taiwan

    Tsair-Wei Chien

  4. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chi Mei medical center, Tainan, Taiwan

    Willy Chou

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SC developed the study concept and design. WC analyzed and interpreted the data.SC monitored the process of this study and helped in responding to the reviewers’ advice and comments. TWC drafted the manuscript, and all authors provided critical revisions for important intellectual content. The study was supervised by TWC. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Kuo, SC., Chien, TW. & Chou, W. Questions to the article: Generating clustered journal maps: an automated system for hierarchical classification. Scientometrics 128, 2615–2617 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04086-8

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