Towards Cross-Community Effects in Scientific Communities

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Community effects on the behaviour of individu- als, the community itself and other communities can be observed in a wide range of applications. This is true in scientific research, where commu- nities of researchers have increasingly to justify their impact and progress to funding agencies. Previous work has tried to explain these phenom- ena by analysing co-citation graphs with methods from social network analysis and graph mining. More recent approaches have supplemented this with techniques from textual clustering. How- ever, there is still a great potential for increasing the quality and accuracy of this analysis, espe- cially in the context of cross-community effects. In this work, we present existing approaches and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. Based on this, we choose two closely related commu- nities and propose novel ideas to detect and ex- plain cross-community effects with a special fo- cus on their characteristics in a given timeline. The outcome is a roadmap for advanced analy- sis of cross-community effects, which promises valuable insights for all areas of scientific re- search.

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* Jointly funded by Lion-2 and Clique

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