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Letter to the Editor: Comments on the paper of Batagelj—on fractional approach to analysis of linked networks

We examine the role of count conservation when derived network matrices are obtained from linked network matrices using an outer product decomposition. It is seen that a full counting operation conserves the count of pathways between nodal variables while a fractional counting operation conserves the count of the nodal variable. We use the cases of co-referencing (bibliographic coupling) and co-citation with a simple citation network to illustrate the ideas.

Gangan Prathap | Somenath Mukherjee | G. Prathap | S. Mukherjee

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