Measuring relatedness between communities in a citation network

As academic disciplines are segmented and specialized, it becomes more difficult to capture relevant research areas precisely by common retrieval strategies using either keywords or journal categories. This paper proposes a method of measuring the relatedness among sets of academic papers in order to detect unrelated communities which are not related to target topic. A citation network, extracted by given keywords, is divided into communities based on the density of links. We measured and compared four measures of relatedness between two communities in a citation network for three large-scale citation datasets. We used both link and semantic similarities. The topological distance from the center in a citation network is a more efficient measure for removing the unrelated communities than the other three measures: the ratio of the number of intercluster links over the all links, the ratio of the number of common terms over all terms, cosine similarity of tf-idf vectors. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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