Abstract: Using the journal Scientometrics as data source for constructing co-author visualization and the field of Information Visualization as data source for formulating co-citation visualization, CiteSpace (CS) and VOSviewer (VOS) are compared by the data from Web of Science (WoS). Results show that both CS and VOS reveal similar basic structure, which can be used for correspondence study in information visualization.

Key words: Information visualization, Bibliometric map, Informetrics, CiteSpace, VOSviewer