compute_citation_ranking function

Function to compute the citation ranking.

This function computes the citation count for each graph node (i.e. publication).

compute_citation_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 citation count values as node attributes).

Returns

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

Author(s)

Christian Vincenot (christian@vincenot.biz)

See Also

compute_BC_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 Citation Ranking
compute_citation_ranking(gr, labels)