Title
The effect of data pre-processing on understanding the evolution of collaboration networks.
Abstract
•Author names were disambiguated by algorithm, all-, and first-initial of given name.•Algorithmic disambiguation approximated the ground-truth better than initial methods.•Initial methods distorted size, degree, distance, and clustering of coauthor network.•Distortion of network properties by initial methods got severe over time.•Initial methods produced degree distributions seemingly following a power law.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.joi.2015.01.002
Journal of Informetrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Collaboration network,Network evolution,Name ambiguity,Disambiguation
Data science,Information system,Data mining,Graph,Computer science,Data pre-processing,Social processes,Clustering coefficient,Metrics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
1
1751-1577
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.48
19
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jinseok Kim1516.74
Jana Diesner221624.38