bibliometrix (version 3.1.4)

histNetwork: Historical co-citation network

Description

histNetwork creates a historical citation network from a bibliographic data frame.

Usage

histNetwork(M, min.citations = 1, sep = ";", network = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

M

is a bibliographic data frame obtained by the converting function convert2df. It is a data matrix with cases corresponding to manuscripts and variables to Field Tag in the original SCOPUS and Clarivate Analitics Web of Science file.

min.citations

is a positive integer. It sets the minimum number of citations for the documents included in the analysis. It can be greater than or equal to 1. The default is min.citations = 1.

sep

is the field separator character. This character separates strings in CR column of the data frame. The default is sep = ";".

network

is logical. If TRUE, fuction calculates and returns also the direct citation network. If FALSE, the function returns only the local citation table.

verbose

is logical. If TRUE, results are printed on screen.

Value

histNetwork returns an object of class "list" containing the following components:

NetMatrix		the historical co-citation network matrix
histData		the set of n most cited references

See Also

convert2df to import and convert an ISI or SCOPUS Export file in a bibliographic data frame.

summary to obtain a summary of the results.

plot to draw some useful plots of the results.

biblioNetwork to compute a bibliographic network.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(management, package = "bibliometrixData")

histResults <- histNetwork(management, min.citations = 0, sep = ";")


# }