Physics – Physics and Society
Scientific paper
2011-07-26
PLoS ONE 2012 7(3): e33255
Physics
Physics and Society
18 pages, 9 figures
Scientific paper
10.1371/journal.pone.0033255
We implemented three recently proposed approaches to the identification of overlapping and hierarchical substructures in graphs and applied the corresponding algorithms to a network of 492 information-science papers coupled via their cited sources. The thematic substructures obtained and overlaps produced by the three hierarchical cluster algorithms were compared to a content-based categorisation, which we based on the interpretation of titles and keywords. We defined sets of papers dealing with three topics located on different levels of aggregation: h-index, webometrics, and bibliometrics. We identified these topics with branches in the dendrograms produced by the three cluster algorithms and compared the overlapping topics they detected with one another and with the three pre-defined paper sets. We discuss the advantages and drawbacks of applying the three approaches to paper networks in research fields.
Gläser Jochen
Havemann Frank
Heinz Michael
Struck Alexander
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