Our course programme consists of courses targeted at professional users of scientometrics, including librarians, policy officers, and research managers at universities, funding agencies, and other research organisations. For PhD students CWTS offers the annual CWTS Scientometrics Summer School.

Visualizing Science Using VOSviewer

This course provides an in-depth introduction to scientometric visualization, focusing on the popular VOSviewer software tool developed at CWTS. The course is taught by Nees Jan van Eck and Ludo Waltman, the developers of the VOSviewer software. It emphasizes practical hands-on training with the software. The course Visualizing Science Using VOSviewer is offered online.

Scientometrics Using Open Data

Scientometric analyses are increasingly performed using open data, making these analyses more transparent, inclusive, and reproducible. The course Scientometrics Using Open Data provides an in-depth introduction to such open data, covering data sources such as Crossref, ORCID, OpenAlex, and others. CWTS organizes the course jointly with the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI). It is offered online.