Author Relationships ECTEL/EDMedia/eLearn

[Xavier Ochoa]

Hi scitels,

From the integrated database I have generated a network of authors
citing other authors.

You can see different captures of this network at:

http://200.10.150.74/SciTel/EEE/index.html

The red nodes have only published in ED-Media, the blue ones in ECTEL
and the yellow ones at eLearn

The combination of the colors represent people that have published in
more than one conference. For example, if someone has published in
EDMedia (red), and ECTEL (blue), will be purple. If someone has
published in EDMedia (red) and eLearn(yellow) will be orange. If you
have published in the three conference you appear white.

The main finding:
- People tend to cite mainly people that have published in a
conference they have attended. It is very rare that an author that
have only published in ED-Media to cite someone that only have
published in ECTEL. If you look at the OneConferencers sub-graph
(multi conference authors have been removed) you can see that the rare
occasions when different colors connect, a link of nationality or
affiliation can be determined (they already know).

Summary: Attending to different conferences is important to get cited
(Duh!)

Kind regards,

Xavier

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[Erik Duval]

Cool!

Would be nice to have these data on the tabletop as well ;-)

This was done with cytoscape? Is it possible to search on names of authors? Or have a slider for selecting folks with a treshold for incoming or outgoing citations?

Best,



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[Xavier Ochoa]

Cytoscape (extended with plugins) provide all those features (Searching by name, filters, etc).  However, Cytoscape is not the easier program to use.  It can be used in the tabletop as a demo, but not as something for the end user.

For the tabeltop I would recommend some build-for-purpose visualizer base on a graph visualizer library.  If the idea is to present the whole graph, something written in c++ or efficient Java could handle it (if you want it interactive). If only part of the graph is shown a Flash/Flex library can be used.

Kind regards,

Xavier

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