histPlot: Plotting historical co-citation network

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Plotting historical co-citation network

Description

histPlot plots a historical co-citation network.

Usage

histPlot(
  histResults,
  n = 20,
  size = 5,
  labelsize = 5,
  remove.isolates = TRUE,
  title_as_label = FALSE,
  label = "short",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

histResults	is an object of class "list" containing the following components: NetMatrix the historical citation network matrix Degree the min degree of the network histData the set of n most cited references M the bibliographic data frame is a network matrix obtained by the function histNetwork.
n	is integer. It defines the number of vertices to plot.
size	is an integer. It defines the point size of the vertices. Default value is 5.
labelsize	is an integer. It indicates the label size in the plot. Default is labelsize=5.
remove.isolates	is logical. If TRUE isolates vertices are not plotted.
title_as_label	is a logical. DEPRECATED
label	is a character. It indicates which label type to use as node id in the historiograph. It can be label=c("short", "title", "keywords", "keywordsplus"). Default is label = "short".
verbose	is logical. If TRUE, results and plots are printed on screen.

Details

The function histPlot can plot a historical co-citation network previously created by histNetwork.

Value

It is list containing: a network object of the class igraph and a plot object of the class ggraph.

See Also

histNetwork to compute a historical co-citation network.

cocMatrix to compute a co-occurrence matrix.

biblioAnalysis to perform a bibliometric analysis.

Examples

# EXAMPLE Citation network
## Not run: 
data(management, package = "bibliometrixData")

histResults <- histNetwork(management, sep = ";")

net <- histPlot(histResults, n = 20, labelsize = 5)

## End(Not run)

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