splitCommunities function

Splitting Network communities

networkPlot Create a network plot with separated communities.

splitCommunities(graph, n = NULL)

Arguments

• graph: is a network plot obtained by the function networkPlot.
• n: is an integer. It indicates the number of vertices to plot for each community.

Returns

It is a network object of the class igraph

Details

The function splitCommunities splits communities in separated subnetworks from a bibliographic network plot previously created by networkPlot.

Examples

# EXAMPLE Keywordd co-occurrence network

data(management, package = "bibliometrixData")

NetMatrix <- biblioNetwork(management, analysis = "co-occurrences", 
network = "keywords", sep = ";")

net <- networkPlot(NetMatrix, n = 30, type = "auto", 
               Title = "Co-occurrence Network",labelsize=1, verbose=FALSE) 

graph <- splitCommunities(net$graph, n = 30)

See Also

biblioNetwork to compute a bibliographic network.

networkPlot to plot a bibliographic network.

net2VOSviewer to export and plot the network with VOSviewer software.

cocMatrix to compute a co-occurrence matrix.

biblioAnalysis to perform a bibliometric analysis.