LETTER TO THE EDITOR

摘要

Dear Editor, In Chen et al. (2015), under "Material and Methods," the authors noted that, "For the research on MSW, author keyword and word cluster analyses were made using Microsoft Excel 2007, and the Global Citation Scores (GCS) and Local Citation Scores (LCS) were acquired by using HistCite." Katz and Hicks (1997) pointed out that, "the latest releases of PC software, such as Microsoft Excel, make it possible to develop graphical user interfaces into complex bibliometric data for a wide spectrum of researchers and policy analysts." Microsoft Excel has been applied in the last decade by my coworkers and me for the analysis of scientific outputs, subject categories, journals, authors, countries, institutes, keywords, and word cluster analyses (Li and Ho 2008; Mao, Wang, and Ho 2010; Xie, Zhang, and Ho 2008; Zhang, Xie, and Ho 2010).