Bibliographic Coupling
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What am I looking at?
A bibliographic coupling analysis of author networks is a method that establishes a connection between two authors based on the number of shared references in the documents they have authored. If two authors cite one or more of the same document, they become bibliographically coupled.
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Analysis Type: Bibliographic coupling; Unit of analysis: Author ; Counting method: fractional counting (Maximum number of authors per document: 25); Thesaurus used to correct formatting errors and duplications; Threshold: Minimum number of documents of an author: 4; Minimum citations of an author: 20. Number of authors: 546; 541 connected authors included. Clustering: min. cluster size: 35; Weights: by Total link strength. NOTE: Adjust settings to select Overlay Visualisation: Weights: by Total link strength, Scores: Average publication date
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Patterns
Bibliographic coupling networks are used to identify research communities and groups of authors working on similar projects and topics within similar domains. Analysing the relatedness between authors in a bibliographic network can also reveal influential researchers and thought leaders within a field of inquiry. The network map provides a social network analysis for visualising how authors are interconnected. ​
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Use the "Find" tab (accessed via the ">" icon) to search for authors in the map. Select an author term to see where they appear within the network map.​
​Change the map colours to "Ave. pub. year" (average year of publication) to see an interesting longitudinal view of authors whose average publication year is around 2010 (such as Mel Slater 2010, Anthony Steed 2009, and Guiseppi Riva 2013), while authors (such as Mark Billinghurst 2019, Maximino Bessa 2020, and Marc Latoschik 2021) demonstrate a greater concentration of publications averaging around 2020.