3 papers
cs.DL2025
A comparison of citation-based clustering and topic modeling for science mapping
Qianqian Xie, Ludo Waltman
Understanding the different ways in which different science mapping approaches capture the structure of scientific fields is critical. This paper presents a comparative analysis of…
cs.DL2024
Causal foundations of bias, disparity and fairness
V. A. Traag, L. Waltman
The study of biases, such as gender or racial biases, is an important topic in the social and behavioural sciences. However, the literature does not always clearly define the conce…
cs.DL2024
Which topics are best represented by science maps? An analysis of clustering effectiveness for citation and text similarity networks
Juan Pablo Bascur, Suzan Verberne, Nees Jan van Eck +1
A science map of topics is a visualization that shows topics identified algorithmically based on the bibliographic metadata of scientific publications. In practice not all topics a…