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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 43: Networks: From Topology to Dynamics II (joint SOE/DY/BP)

BP 43.1: Talk

Thursday, March 19, 2015, 12:00–12:15, MA 001

Sensitivity against author name disambiguation of a motif-based success score in coauthorship networks — •David F. Klosik¹, Stefan Bornholdt¹, and Marc-Thorsten Hütt² — ¹Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Bremen — ²School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen

Motivated by the question whether large-scale citation datasets allow for a quantitative assessment of social influences in form of coauthorship of publications we investigate a success score [L. Krumov, C. Fretter, M. Müller-Hannemann, K. Weihe, and M.-T. Hütt, EPJ B (84), 535 (2011)] for small collaboration patterns in coauthorship networks. We find that when applied to a network compiled from aggregated citation data provided by the American Physical Society this score which is based on the scale of small induced subgraphs (as known from motif-analysis) is highly sensitive to details of the network construction from the data; especially to the inevitable disambiguation of author names (i.e., the scheme applied to group instances of author names into a vertex). We argue that these findings might not be exclusive to coauthorship networks since similar ambiguities are present in the network representations of other data [D.F. Klosik, S. Bornholdt, M.-T. Hütt, Phys. Rev. E 90, 032811 (2014)].