N-mode network approach for socio-semantic analysis of scientific publications

The sciences develop as conglomerates of ideas, texts, and agents. In this study, we propose a n-mode network approach to integrate the network matrices containing social, semantic, and epistemic attributes analytically into a single network and visualization. For example, authors, words (e.g., title words and keywords), and knowledge claims can be attributed to publications as units of analysis. This results in a 2-mode document/attributes...