You can now use the social network feature to explore relationships between your articles, authors, and books. However, this feature is available only for users of NVivo Plus not KSU users of NVivo Pro. You may want to map out which researchers write together and analyze the clusters of researchers working in a particular field. See instructions on how to do "network analysis" here.
Or you may want to code when an author cites, critiques, supports or expands on ideas from other articles.
Before even coding the literature you may run the initial queries that help you to visualize data
Once you have coded the literature, you could use other queries and visualizations to get an overview of the emerging themes—for example, you could create a Group query (and generate a connection map from the results).
You may want to run a Matrix Coding query to see the coding at selected themes:
