Towards a new generic framework for citation network generation and analysis in the humanities

Blidstein, Moshe; Zhitomirsky‐Geffet, Maayan

doi:10.1007/s11192-022-04438-y

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“…Blidstein and Zhitomirsky-Geffet [ 45 ] present a novel generic framework for generating and analyzing citation networks in historical humanities, distinguishing between primary sources (historical texts) and secondary literature (modern scholarship). This approach is tailored to humanities’ unique citation practices and involves variables like source and citation types.…”

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Citation network analysis for viewpoint plurality assessment of historical corpora: The case of the medieval rabbinic literature

Ben-Gigi,

Zhitomirsky-Geffet,

Katzoff

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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Citation networks enable analysis of author groups, defining in-group dynamics, and mapping out inter-group relationships. While intellectual diversity and inclusiveness is one of the important principles of modern scholarship, it is intriguing to explore the extent to which these principles apply to historical communities of leaders and intellectuals. This paper introduces a novel methodological framework aimed at assessing the degree of viewpoint plurality and diversity of historical scholarship communities, through an in-depth analysis of the citations used in their literature, which has become possible due to the recently developed advanced computational analysis techniques. To achieve this goal, we have devised a set of new network-based indicators grounded in standard network metrics. These indicators can be applied at both the individual author and community levels. The developed methodology was applied to a citation network automatically constructed from a corpus of Rabbinic Halachic literature spanning the 10th to 15th centuries. This corpus includes over 5,000 citations from hundreds of books authored by approximately 140 Rabbinic scholars from six diverse geographic communities. We found that most of the authors and communities cite many more external resources from other communities than their own reflecting a willingness to engage with a diverse range of viewpoints. A more in-depth analysis based on the novel proportional diversity measures unveils more intriguing insights. Contrary to expectations, communities with the greatest number of external citations, such as Spain and Ashkenaz, surprisingly exhibit lower levels of viewpoint plurality compared to others, such as Italy and North Africa, elucidating a key finding of the study.

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Citation network analysis for viewpoint plurality assessment of historical corpora: The case of the medieval rabbinic literature

Ben-Gigi,

Zhitomirsky-Geffet,

Katzoff

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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“…Researchers, however, have also recognized the value of existing indexes as sources of structured, human-curated information. Recent work by Blidstein and Zhitomirsky-Geffet [2022] provides a fitting example of how indexes, and indices locorum in particular -can provide extremely valuable data for citation analysis. By parsing such indexes, they distilled information about cited primary sources within a corpus of scholarly books on ancient Mediterranean religion and culture.…”

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From Books to Knowledge Graphs

Kokash¹,

Romanello²,

Suyver³

et al. 2023

Journal of Data Mining &Amp; Digital Humanities

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The digital transformation of the scientific publishing industry has led to dramatic improvements in content discoverability and information analytics. Unfortunately, these improvements have not been uniform across research areas. The scientific literature in the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) still lags behind, in part due to the scale of analog backlogs, the persisting importance of national languages, and a publisher ecosystem made of many, small or medium enterprises. We propose a bottom-up approach to support publishers in creating and maintaining their own publication knowledge graphs in the open domain. We do so by releasing a pipeline able to extract structured information from the bibliographies and indexes of AHSS publications, disambiguate, normalize and export it as linked data. We test the proposed pipeline on Brill's Classics collection, and release an implementation in open source for further use and improvement.

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“…The A&H research is heterogeneous, and scientists in these disciplines use different types of publications and languages (Blidstein and Zhitomirsky-Geffet, 2022;Kellsey and Knievel, 2004;Melchiorsen, 2019;Nederhof, 2006;Yang and Qi, 2021). The most popular citation databases, such as Web of Science (WoS) or Scopus, which are usually exploited as more reliable data sources for bibliometric analysis, are characterized by poorer coverage of Humanities.…”

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Ukrainian arts and humanities research in Scopus: a bibliometric analysis

Nazarovets

Mryglod

2023

LHT

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PurposeThis article presents the results of a quantitative analysis of Ukrainian arts and humanities (A&H) research from 2012 to 2021, as observed in Scopus. The overall publication activity and the relative share of A&H publications in relation to Ukraine's total research output, comparing them with other countries. The study analyzes the diversity and total number of sources, as well as the geographic distribution of authors and citing authors, to provide insights into the internationalization level of Ukrainian A&H research. Additionally, the topical spectrum and language usage are considered to complete the overall picture.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses the Scopus database as the primary data source for analyzing the general bibliometric characteristics of Ukrainian A&H research. All document types, except Erratum, were considered. A language filter was applied to compare the bibliometric characteristics of English versus non-English publications. In addition to directly imported data from Scopus, the study employs the ready-to-use SciVal tools to operate with A&H subcategories and calculate additional bibliometric characteristics, such as Citations per Publication (CPP), Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) and journal quartiles. Information on the country of journal publishers and details on delisted journals from Scopus were obtained from the official Source Title List available on the Elsevier website and the SCImago Journal and Country Rank Portal.FindingsAccording to the results obtained, the publication patterns for Ukrainian A&H research exhibit dynamics comparable to those of other countries, with a gradual increase in the total number of papers and sources. However, the citedness is lower than expected, and the share of publications in top-quartile sources is lower for 2020–2021 period compared to the previous years. The impact of internationally collaborative papers, especially those in English, is higher. Nevertheless, over half of all works remain uncited, probably due to the limited readership of the journals selected for publication.Originality/valueThis study provides original insights into the bibliometric characteristics of Ukrainian A&H publications between 2012 and 2021, as assessed using the Scopus database. The authors’ findings reveal that Ukraine's A&H publications have higher visibility than some Asian countries with similar population sizes. However, in comparison to other countries of similar size, Ukraine's research output is smaller. The authors also discovered that cultural and historical similarities with neighboring countries play a more significant role in publication activity than population size. This study highlights the low integration of Ukrainian A&H research into the global academic community, evident through a decline in papers published in influential journals and poor citedness. These findings underscore the importance for authors to prioritize disseminating research in influential journals, rather than solely focusing on indexing in particular databases.

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Towards a new generic framework for citation network generation and analysis in the humanities

Cited by 5 publications

References 42 publications

Citation network analysis for viewpoint plurality assessment of historical corpora: The case of the medieval rabbinic literature

Citation network analysis for viewpoint plurality assessment of historical corpora: The case of the medieval rabbinic literature

From Books to Knowledge Graphs

Ukrainian arts and humanities research in Scopus: a bibliometric analysis

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