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By: Kerim

Kerim — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:06:48 +0000

Alan. Certainly. All content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. But please do come back and leave a comment if anyone does anything interesting with this data!

By: Alan Tse

Alan Tse — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 05:35:51 +0000

Hi there,
This is Alan Tse, one of the content managers of the World Council of Anthropological Association blog. http://www.wcaanet.org/blog/ May I share this post on our blog? This is really interesting! Thanks!
Alan

By: Kerim

Kerim — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 10:09:49 +0000

Jonathan,

It is hard to predict what various changes will do to the data – but I think your suggestions would probably help: restricting to the last 20 years and reducing the gravity. It’s worth a try anyway!

What I really hope is that someone with more experience working with this kind of data will be inspired by your work…

By: John McCreery

John McCreery — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 06:34:43 +0000

Jonathon. Hat’s off to your programming skills. If I were using Pajek to generate the static graph I would use the Kamada Kawai spring algorithm and the separate components setting to break up the central hairball a bit.

By: John McCreery

John McCreery — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:08:54 +0000

There is a whole subfield of social network analysis devoted to this sort of thing. A google search for “citation analysis” will turn up a ton of stuff.

By: Jonathan Goodwin (@joncgoodwin)

Jonathan Goodwin (@joncgoodwin) — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:35:48 +0000

There is too much data in this version for it to be very clean, though there are probably tweaks I could make to the link distance, ‘gravity,’ and line thickness to make it display better. Chrome is much snappier with it than Safari on my computer, so you could also try that it if it’s too slow. I believe that Healy’s graphs didn’t go as far back in time as these do, which is another route I could go. A cleaner graph of only American Anthropologist is available here: http://jgoodwin.net/ant-cites/cites-slider.html

One thing I could implement is another slider for date of publication, but it would require more coding than I have time for at the moment. Also, theoretically, the community-detection algorithm that colors the nodes should be able to identify sub-fields in a general journal.