Research Data Assistant Needed for Small Academic Bibliometric Project

I am looking for a reliable research data assistant to support a small research project involving bibliometric mapping and comparative policy analysis within social science/public policy research. This is a small fixed-price project with a total budget of approximately **USD $50–75 for the full project**, paid through milestones. Please only apply if this budget works for you. The project involves supporting multiple connected academic research papers using one shared dataset and workflow. Required Skills Applicants should have familiarity with: * VOSviewer * Bibliometrix or Biblioshiny * Scopus CSV exports * Excel or Google Sheets * Basic data cleaning Tasks Include * Cleaning and organizing Scopus export files * Removing duplicates and standardizing institution/author names * Generating: * keyword co-occurrence maps * collaboration maps * institutional/country network visuals * publication trend charts * Exporting figures/tables for use * Assisting with a simple comparative coding spreadsheet for policy documents ## Important Notes * This is NOT a machine learning or advanced statistics project. * No regression analysis is required. * Most tasks are organizational, bibliometric, and visualization-focused. * Reliability and communication are very important. ## Milestone Payment Structure (Approximate) * Dataset cleaning and organization * Bibliometric visualization support * Keyword/theme mapping * Collaboration/network outputs * Final revisions and export formatting ## To Apply Please include: 1. Your experience with VOSviewer/Bibliometrix 2. Any similar research support work 3. Your country/time zone 4. Confirmation that the fixed-price budget works for you Potential for future collaboration if the project goes well.