CIShell Manual : Extract Co-Author Network
This page last changed on Jan 11, 2011 by barbosaa.
Menu pathData Preparation > Database > ISI > Co-Author Network DescriptionExtracts the co-authorship network from an ISI database. Each author from each document in the input database is represented by a node. An edge is drawn between the nodes for two authors if and only if they co-authored a document in the input database. AnalysisThe output network will include the following summaries of your dataset:
Usage HintsLoad an ISI file into the tool, then create a database from it using the ISI database loader. For a quick analysis of a small dataset you may wish to merge together author entities with identical names. For a scientifically sound analysis of a larger dataset, you can find author entity merging suggestions (or manually set your own merging orders from scratch) and perform the merge. Links
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