histNetwork: Historical co-citation network

In bibliometrix: Comprehensive Science Mapping Analysis

Historical co-citation network

Description

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

Usage

histNetwork(M, min.citations, 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, OpenAlex, Lens.org and Clarivate Analytics Web of Science file.
min.citations	DEPRECATED. New algorithm does not use this parameters. It will be remove in the next version of bibliometrix.
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, function 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
M		the bibliographic data frame

See Also

convert2df to import and convert a supported 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, sep = ";")

## End(Not run)

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