Computer Science Literature

References

(An et al., 2004) ⇒ Yuan An, Jeannette Janssen, and Evangelos E. Milios. (2004). “Characterizing and Mining the Citation Graph of the Computer Science Literature." Knowledge and Information Systems 6, no. 6 doi:10.1007/s10115-003-0128-3
- ABSTRACT: Citation graphs representing a body of scientific literature convey measures of scholarly activity and productivity. In this work we present a study of the structure of the citation graph of the computer science literature. Using a web robot we built several topic-specific citation graphs and their union graph from the digital library ResearchIndex. After verifying that the degree distributions follow a power law, we applied a series of graph theoretical algorithms to elicit an aggregate picture of the citation graph in terms of its connectivity. We discovered the existence of a single large weakly-connected and a single large biconnected component, and confirmed the expected lack of a large strongly-connected component. The large components remained even after removing the strongest authority nodes or the strongest hub nodes, indicating that such tight connectivity is widespread and does not depend on a small subset of important nodes. Finally, minimum cuts between authority papers of different areas did not result in a balanced partitioning of the graph into areas, pointing to the need for more sophisticated algorithms for clustering the graph.

(Goodrum et al., 2001) ⇒ Abby A. Goodrum, Katherine W. McCain, Steve Lawrence, and C. Lee Giles. (2001). “Scholarly Publishing in the Internet Age: A Citation Analysis of Computer Science Literature." Information Processing & Management 37, no. 5

(Heath et al., 1995) ⇒ Lenwood S. Heath, Deborah Hix, Lucy T. Nowell, William C. Wake, Guillermo A. Averboch, Eric Labow, Scott A. Guyer et al. (1995). “Envision: A User-centered Database of Computer Science Literature." Communications of the ACM 38, no. 4