Source code for tethne.networks.papers

"""
Methods for generating networks in which papers are vertices.

.. autosummary::
   :nosignatures:

   author_coupling
   bibliographic_coupling
   cocitation
   direct_citation
   topic_coupling

"""

from tethne.networks.base import multipartite, coupling, cooccurrence


[docs]def direct_citation(corpus, min_weight=1, **kwargs):
    """
    A directed paper-citation network.

    Direct-citation graphs are `directed acyclic graphs`__ in which vertices
    are papers, and each (directed) edge represents a citation of the target
    paper by the source paper. The :func:`.networks.papers.direct_citation`
    method generates both a global citation graph, which includes all cited and
    citing papers, and an internal citation graph that describes only citations
    among papers in the original dataset.
    """

    return multipartite(corpus, ['citations'], min_weight=min_weight, **kwargs)


[docs]def bibliographic_coupling(corpus, min_weight=1, **kwargs):
    """
    Generate a bibliographic coupling network.

    Two papers are **bibliographically coupled** when they both cite the same,
    third, paper.
    """
    return coupling(corpus, 'citations', min_weight=min_weight, **kwargs)


[docs]def cocitation(corpus, min_weight=1, edge_attrs=['ayjid', 'date'], **kwargs):
    """
    Generate a cocitation network.

    A **cocitation network** is a network in which vertices are papers, and
    edges indicate that two papers were cited by the same third paper.
    `CiteSpace
    <http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/citespace/doc/jasist2006.pdf>`_
    is a popular desktop application for co-citation analysis, and you can read
    about the theory behind it
    `here <http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/citespace/>`_.
    """
    return cooccurrence(corpus, 'citations', min_weight=min_weight,
                        edge_attrs=edge_attrs, **kwargs)


[docs]def author_coupling(corpus, min_weight=1, **kwargs):
    return coupling(corpus, 'authors', min_weight=min_weight, **kwargs)