The application of graph structures to the bibliometrical and webometrical analyses. Models and methods Cover Image

Zastosowanie struktur grafowych do analiz bibliometrycznych i webometrycznych. Modele i metody
The application of graph structures to the bibliometrical and webometrical analyses. Models and methods

Author(s): Anna Małgorzata Kamińska
Subject(s): Library and Information Science, Information Architecture, Other
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: bibliometrics; dynamic graphs; Gephi; graph structures; hierarchical graphs; methods of evaluation; models of evaluation

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the possibility to use the concept derived from the theory of graphs and methods of the social network analysis in bibliometrics and webometrics. Although the methods of the analysis of graph structures have been familiar to scholarship for a long time, it was the development of technologies which enable the application of these methods in practice in large collections of data that popularised them in many fields of science, and even of everyday life. Although the possibilities of the application of these methods in biblio- and webometrics were indicated by researchers even in the past century, there is a relatively small number of publications, especially released in this country, which put these methods to practice. Therefore in the present work the author presents the general concepts of the analyses and the models of aggregation of bibliometrical data, which may be adopted for the purposes of specific research. Although the considerations which are described are general and are independent of a specific analytical platform, the final part of the article presents an example of the Gephi application, which enables the implementation of the concepts in question.

  • Issue Year: 29/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 47-63
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish