[CASE STUDIES] [STUDY OF DISTRIBUTIONS WITHIN COLLECTIONS OF PAPERS]

Case Studies

  1. Mapping knowledge domains A study of four different collections of papers related to the topic of Knowledge Domain Mapping.
  2. Angiogenesis A demo project for cardiac researchers at Iowa State U.
  3. Atrial fibrillation A demo project for cardiac arrhythmia researchers at University of Oklahoma.
  4. MEMS RF switches A demo project for Lockheed-Martin.
  5. Molecular imprinting A demo project for Lockheed-Martin.
  6. Update of complex networks Update of complex networks collection used for Sackler Colloquium poster.
  7. Scientometrics A large collection of Scientometrics papers and the papers that cite Scientometrics papers.
  1. High temperature superconductivity Case study conducted for a physics researcher at Oklahoma State University.
  2. Twelve information science journals A study of author co-citation in 12 Information Science journal over the period 1981-2001. Also shows a visualization of factor matrix from well-known White & McCain 1998 "Visualizing a discipline..." paper.
  3. Papers citing Henry Small A study to find base references on the topic of "references as concept symbols".
  4. Agent based modeling A attempt to find base references in agent based modeling research.
  5. Econophysics Conducted for a physics researcher at Oklahoma State University.
  6. Complex networks, first version, Example collection of papers used in Morris & Yen, (2004), Crossmaps: visualization of overlapping relationships in collection of journal papers. PNAS.
  7. Evolutionary computation Michel Goldstein's study of evolutionary computation papers, some experimental work using Pajek.
  8. Cystic Fibrosis body composition A case study performed with Liying Yang and Elizabeth Barden. Results reported in Yang, Morris & Barden, 2007.
  9. Genomics A visualization performed for Liying Yang.


Studies of distributions of entities in 27 different collections of journal papers

In the figure below click on the links to see plots of selected distributions. Links to plots of all distributions studied appears below the figure. A summary of characteristics of each collection is here.

A diagram of co-occurrence linkages and co-occurrence groups among entities in collections of papers. See this page.
A diagram of "image" and "identity" in papers to reference relations. (This constitutes and generalization of the concepts of "image" and "identity" introduced by White in his "Authors as citers over time" paper.) See this page.



Distributions of paper authors

Distribution of number of co-authors.
Distribution of co-author clustering coefficient.
Distribution of paper author frequency.

Distributions of reference authors

Distribution of number reference authors.
Distribution of number unique ref authors per paper.
Crossplots of rxy vs. cosine similarity for author co-citation.
Crossplots of non-binary vs. binary cosine similarity for author co-citation.
Crossplots of overlap cosine vs. binary cosine similarity for author co-citation.

Distributions of references

Distribution of references per paper.
Distribution of papers per reference (citations received per reference).
Bibliographic coupling clustering coefficient study.

Distributions of paper journals

Distribution of papers per paper journal.

Distributions of reference journals

Distribution of papers per reference journal.
Distribution of reference journals per paper.

Aging plots

Plot of reference age from single year of papers.