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4 years ago in Network Theory , Scientometrics By Daniel
Describe the difference between a co-authorship network (authors/countries/institutions), a co-occurrence network (keywords/terms), and a citation network (documents/sources) in VOSviewer.
My thesis involves multiple bibliometric perspectives. I've run these different network types in VOSviewer, but for my defense, I need to articulate their distinct intellectual purposes clearly. What is the core relational data each one uses, and consequently, what specific "story" about the research field is each network best suited to tell?
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By Manoj Answered 2 years ago
In my workshops, I frame these as three distinct lenses. A co-authorship network (of authors, countries, institutions) maps social collaboration structures, showing who works with whom. A co-occurrence network (of keywords or terms) maps conceptual or thematic structure, revealing which ideas are studied together. A citation network (of documents or sources) maps intellectual influence and flow, showing which prior work a document builds upon or acknowledges. Each uses different relational data shared authorship, shared text, or reference links to answer fundamentally different questions about the scholarly ecosystem.
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