Motif-based success scores in coauthorship networks are highly sensitive to author name disambiguation

David F. Klosik, Stefan Bornholdt, and Marc-Thorsten Hütt
Phys. Rev. E 90, 032811 – Published 19 September 2014

Abstract

Following the work of Krumov et al. [Eur. Phys. J. B 84, 535 (2011)] we revisit the question whether the usage of large citation datasets allows for the quantitative assessment of social (by means of coauthorship of publications) influence on the progression of science. Applying a more comprehensive and well-curated dataset containing the publications in the journals of the American Physical Society during the whole 20th century we find that the measure chosen in the original study, a score based on small induced subgraphs, has to be used with caution, since the obtained results are highly sensitive to the exact implementation of the author disambiguation task.

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  • Received 15 May 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.90.032811

©2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

David F. Klosik* and Stefan Bornholdt

  • Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bremen, Hochschulring 18, 28359 Bremen, Germany

Marc-Thorsten Hütt

  • School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany

  • *klosik@itp.uni-bremen.de
  • bornholdt@itp.uni-bremen.de
  • m.huett@jacobs-university.de

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Vol. 90, Iss. 3 — September 2014

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