Letter to the Editor: Comments on the paper of Batagelj—on fractional approach to analysis of linked networks

Gangan Prathap () and Somenath Mukherjee ()
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Gangan Prathap: A P J Abdul Kalam Technological University
Somenath Mukherjee: CSIR Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute

Scientometrics, 2020, vol. 124, issue 3, No 44, 2717-2722

Abstract: Abstract We examine the role of count conservation when derived network matrices are obtained from linked network matrices using an outer product decomposition. It is seen that a full counting operation conserves the count of pathways between nodal variables while a fractional counting operation conserves the count of the nodal variable. We use the cases of co-referencing (bibliographic coupling) and co-citation with a simple citation network to illustrate the ideas.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; Linked network analysis; Co-citation; Co-referencing; Bibliographic coupling; Count conservation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-020-03541-2

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