A unified approach to mapping and clustering of bibliometric networks

Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck and Ed C.M. Noyons

Journal of Informetrics, 2010, vol. 4, issue 4, 629-635

Abstract: In the analysis of bibliometric networks, researchers often use mapping and clustering techniques in a combined fashion. Typically, however, mapping and clustering techniques that are used together rely on very different ideas and assumptions. We propose a unified approach to mapping and clustering of bibliometric networks. We show that the VOS mapping technique and a weighted and parameterized variant of modularity-based clustering can both be derived from the same underlying principle. We illustrate our proposed approach by producing a combined mapping and clustering of the most frequently cited publications that appeared in the field of information science in the period 1999–2008.

Keywords: Bibliometric map; Clustering; Mapping; Unified approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2010.07.002

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