compute_BC_ranking function

Function to compute the Betweenness Centrality ranking.

This function computes the Betweenness Centrality (BC) for each graph node (i.e. publication).

compute_BC_ranking(gr, labels, write_to_graph = F)

Arguments

• gr: Citation graph
• labels: Labels (i.e. names) of the two corpora featured in the graph.
• write_to_graph: Flag to indicate whether to write results to the graph (i.e. save BC values as node attributes).

Returns

If write_to_graph is FALSE, returns a list of entries (authors, title, year, corpus, BC) sorted by decreasing BC. Else, returns the graph given as input to which BC values are added as node attributes.

Author(s)

Christian Vincenot (christian@vincenot.biz)

See Also

compute_citation_ranking, compute_Ji_ranking

Examples

labels<-c("Corpus1","Corpus2")

# Build a bibliographical dataset from Scopus exports
db<-create_bibliography(corpora_files=c(tempfi1,tempfi2), 
                        labels=labels, keywords=NA)

# Build graph
gr<-build_graph(db=db,small.year.mismatch=TRUE, attrs=c("Corpus","Year","Authors"), nb.cores=1)

# Compute BC
compute_BC_ranking(gr, labels)