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Curve Estimation among Citation and Centrality Measures in Article-level Citation Networks

문헌 단위 인용 네트워크 내 인용과 중심성 지수 간 관계 추정에 관한 연구

  • 유소영 (연세대학교 문헌정보학과)
  • Received : 2012.05.30
  • Accepted : 2012.06.19
  • Published : 2012.06.30
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Abstract

The characteristics of citation and centrality measures in citation networks can be identified using multiple linear regression analyses. In this study, we examine the relationships between bibliometric indices and centrality measures in an article-level co-citation network to determine whether the linear model is the best fitting model and to suggest the necessity of data transformation in the analysis. 703 highly cited articles in Physics published in 2004 were sampled, and four indicators were developed as variables in this study: citation counts, degree centrality, closeness centrality, and betweenness centrality in the co-citation network. As a result, the relationship pattern between citation counts and degree centrality in a co-citation network fits a non-linear rather than linear model. Also, the relationship between degree and closeness centrality measures, or that between degree and betweenness centrality measures, can be better explained by non-linear models than by a linear model. It may be controversial, however, to choose non-linear models as the best-fitting for the relationship between closeness and betweenness centrality measures, as this result implies that data transformation may be a necessary step for inferential statistics.

이 연구에서는 인용 및 동시인용 문헌 네트워크에서의 중심성 지수를 사용한 추론 통계 적용의 첫 번째 단계로써 이들 간 관계의 선형성을 살펴보고자 하였다. 703개의 문헌 동시인용 네트워크를 활용하여 인용 빈도, 연결정도 중심성, 인접 중심성, 매개 중심성 간의 4가지 주요 관계의 패턴을 살펴본 결과, 모든 인용 및 중심성 간 관계가 선형모델보다는 비선형적 모델로 더 잘 설명될 수 있음을 통계적으로 확인되었다. 따라서 이들 간의 인과관계에 대한 다중회귀분석과 같은 추론 통계 분석의 기반이 되는 선형성을 확보하기 위해서는 논리적인 기준에 근거한 데이터 변환이나 실제값을 구간값으로 변환하는 과정이 필요하다고 할 수 있다.

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