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On the stability of citation networks

Alexandre Benatti, Henrique Ferraz De Arruda, Filipi Nascimento Silva, César Henrique Comin (ORCID), Luciano Da Fontoura Costa

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 610: 128399. . DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2022.128399.

Abstract

Citation networks can reveal important information regarding the development of science and the relationship between different areas of knowledge. Frequently, citation networks are created using articles acquired from a set of relevant keywords or queries. Here, we study the robustness of citation networks communities with regards to the keywords that were used for collecting the respective articles. A perturbation approach is proposed, in which the influence of missing keywords on the community structure of citation networks is quantified. In addition, the relationship between keywords and the community structure of citation networks is studied using networks generated from a simple model. We find that, owing to its highly modular structure, the community structure of citation networks tends to be preserved even when many relevant keywords are left out. Furthermore, the proposed model can reflect the impact of missing keywords on different situations.

Citation

@article{Benatti2023On,
  title   = {On the stability of citation networks},
  author  = {Benatti, Alexandre and De Arruda, Henrique Ferraz and Silva, Filipi Nascimento and Comin, César Henrique and Da Fontoura Costa, Luciano},
  journal = {Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications},
  year    = {2023},
  volume  = {610},
  number  = {},
  pages   = {128399},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.physa.2022.128399}
}