Citations driven by social connections? A multi-layer representation of coauthorship networks
Abstract
To what extent is the citation rate of new papers influenced by the past social relations of their authors? To answer this question, we present a data-driven analysis of nine different physics journals. Our analysis is based on a two-layer network representation constructed from two large-scale data sets, INSPIREHEP and APS. The social layer contains authors as nodes and coauthorship relations as links. This allows us to quantify the social...
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Title
Citations driven by social connections? A multi-layer representation of coauthorship networks
Published Date
Dec 1, 2020
Journal
Volume
1
Issue
4
Pages
1493 - 1509
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