Gephi

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title: "Gephi" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["2000-software", "network-theory", "free-application-software", "graph-drawing-software", "free-data-and-information-visualization-software"] description: "Network analysis and visualization software package" topic_path: "general/2000-software" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gephi" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Network analysis and visualization software package ::

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Field	Value
name	Gephi
title	Gephi
logo	Gephi-logo.png
logo size	200px
screenshot	Gephi 0.9.1 Network Analysis and Visualization Software.png
screenshot size	300px
developer	Mathieu Bastian, Eduardo Ramos Ibañez, Mathieu Jacomy, Cezary Bartosiak, Sébastien Heymann, Julian Bilcke, Patrick McSweeney, André Panisson, Jérémy Subtil, Helder Suzuki, Martin Skurla, Antonio Patriarca
released
latest release version
latest release date
latest preview date
programming language	Java, OpenGL
operating system	Linux, Windows, macOS
platform	NetBeans
size	121.1 MB
language	English, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish,
genre	Visualization
license	GNU General Public License, Common Development and Distribution License
website
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History

Initially developed by students of the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC) in France, Gephi has been selected for the Google Summer of Code in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.

Its last version, 0.10.1 has been launched in 2023. Previous versions are 0.6.0 (2008), 0.7.0 (2010), 0.8.0 (2011), 0.8.1 (2012), 0.8.2 (2013), 0.9.0 (2015), 0.9.1 (2016) and 0.9.2 (2017).

The Gephi Consortium, created in 2010, is a French non-profit corporation which supports development of future releases of Gephi. Members include SciencesPo, Linkfluence, WebAtlas, and Quid. Gephi is also supported by a large community of users, structured on a discussion group and a forum and producing numerous blogposts, papers and tutorials.

In November 2022, a lightweight web version of Gephi, Gephi lite, was announced.

Applications

Gephi has been used in a number of research projects in academia, journalism and elsewhere, for instance in visualizing the global connectivity of New York Times content and examining Twitter network traffic during social unrest along with more traditional network analysis topics. Gephi is widely used within the digital humanities (in history, literature, political sciences, etc.), a community where many of its developers are involved.

Gephi inspired the LinkedIn InMaps and was used for the network visualizations for Truthy.

References

References

1. https://launchpad.net/gephi/0.6/0.6alpha1 Gephi version 0.6a1 release date
2. Grandjean, Martin. (2014). "La connaissance est un réseau". Les Cahiers du Numérique.
3. Gephi. (2013-04-04). "@jeanburgess @timhighfield @snurb_dot_info #Gephi should be pronounced /ɡɛfi/ (how to read this: http://ow.ly/jKfqz ) #TipOfTheDay".
4. Gephi. (2022-10-08). "Intro to the Gephi Week 2022 in Paris - 1/19". [[YouTube]].
5. (2009). "Gephi : An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks". AAAI Publications, Third International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.
6. Desmedt, Patrice. (2011). "Sébastien Heymann - Le cartographe des données". L'Usine Nouvelle.
7. [https://github.com/gephi/gephi/releases Liste des versions, sur GitHub]
8. [https://gephi.wordpress.com/2015/12/21/gephi-0-9-released-play-with-network-data-again/ Gephi 0.9 released]
9. [https://gephi.wordpress.com/2016/02/15/gephi-updates-with-0-9-1-version/ Gephi updates with 0.9.1 version]
10. [https://gephi.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/gephi-0-9-2-a-new-csv-importer/ Gephi 0.9.2 : a new CSV importer]
11. "The Gephi Consortium - Members". The Gephi Consortium.
12. [https://www.facebook.com/groups/gephi/ Gephi Facebook group]
13. "Gephi forums".
14. Grandjean, Martin. (2015). "GEPHI - Introduction to Network Analysis and Visualisation".
15. Jacomy, Mathieu. (2022-11-15). "Gephi Lite".
16. Leetaru, Kalev H.. (2011). "Culturomics 2.0:Forecasting Large-scale human behavior using global news media tone in time and space". First Monday.
17. Aouragh, Miriyam. (2011). "Collateral Damage: #Oslo Attacks and Proliferating Islamophobia". [[Jadaliyya]].
18. Panisson. (2011). "The Egyptian Revolution on Twitter - Featured on the PBS NewsHour". YouTube.
19. Correa, Debora C.. (2011). "Using Digraphs and a Second-Order Markovian Model for Rhythm Classification". Complex Networks.
20. Grandjean, Martin. (2017). "Analisi e visualizzazioni delle reti in storia. L'esempio della cooperazione intellettuale della Società delle Nazioni". Memoria e Ricerca.
21. [https://blog.linkedin.com/2011/01/24/linkedin-inmaps Launched in 2011] and stopped in 2014.
22. Heymann, Sebastien. (2011). "2010 Usage of Gephi".
23. "Pajek / PajekXXL / Pajek3XL".

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