1283. sredin seminar: D. Maltseva, V. Batagelj: Social Network Analysis - Bibliographic Network Analysis of the Field and its Evolution, Part 2

We will present the results of our ongoing research on development of the field of Social Network Analysis and trace its evolution through time using the analysis of bibliographic networks.

We analyze articles from the Web of Science Clarivate Analytics data base containing the key word “social network*”, as well as those published in the main journals in the field. The first part of the data set was collected in 2008 (7,000+ papers). The second part consists of 60,000+ papers published in the last ten years and was collected this summer. The full data set includes 70,000+ works. From the collected data we constructed the citation network and two-mode networks linking articles with authors, keywords and journals.

In the analysis we are following and improving on the already proven scheme used in earlier studies (Kejžar et al., 2010; Batagelj and Cerinšek, 2013, 2014; Batagelj et al., 2014, 2017, etc.). The approach to temporal network analysis (proposed by Batagelj and Praprotnik, 2016) was applied on large bibliographic networks for the first time.

The “static” analysis was presented on Wednesday, 21 and the temporal analysis will be presented on Wednesday, 28.