Title
Citations among blogs in a hierarchy of communities: Method and case study
Abstract
Abstract In this paper we propose a generic methodology to study the correlation between nodes interactions in complex networks and their organization into groups called communities . We illustrate it on citations in a blog network. We first define a homophily probability evaluating the tendency of blogs to cite blogs from the same community. We then introduce the notion of community distance to capture whether a blog cites (or is cited by) blogs distant or not from its community. We analyze the distribution of distances corresponding to each citation link, and use it to build maps of relevant communities which help interpreting blogs interactions. This community-oriented approach allows us to study citation links at various abstraction levels, and conversely, to characterize communities with regard to their citation behaviour.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.jocs.2011.05.010
Journal of Computational Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Complex network,Community structure,Citation links,Blogs
Data science,Community structure,World Wide Web,Abstraction,Homophily,Computer science,Citation,Complex network,Blog network,Hierarchy
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2
3
1877-7503
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.60
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Abdelhamid Salah Brahim171.30
Bénédicte Le Grand212618.50
Lionel Tabourier3908.85
Matthieu Latapy41488103.74