2011/01/19 by Sándor Soós, Sandor Soos, Soos, Sandor +2
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #Gene Regulatory Network Analysis #cs.DL #cs.SI #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1101.3684
arxiv created 2011/01/19 · arxiv updated 2011/01/20
We apply bio-inspired methods for the analysis of different dynamic bibliometric networks (linking papers by citation, authors, and keywords, respectively). Biological species are clusters of individuals defined by widely different criteria and in the biological perspective it is natural to (1) use different categorizations on the same entities (2) to compare the different categorizations and to analyze the dissimilarities, especially as they change over time. We employ the same methodology to comparisons of bibliometric classifications. We constructed them as analogs of three species concepts: cladistic or lineage based, similarity based, and "biological species" (based on co-reproductive ability). We use the Rand and Jaccard indexes to compare classifications in different time intervals. The experiment is aimed to address the classic problem of science mapping, as to what extent the various techniques based on different bibliometric indicators, such as citations, keywords or authors are able to detect convergent structures in the litrerature, that is, to identify coherent specialities or research directions and their dynamics.