bibliometrix (version 1.9.4)

networkStat: Calculating network summary statistics

Description

networkStat calculates main network statistics.

Usage

networkStat(object)

Arguments

object

is a network matrix obtained by the function biblioNetwork or an graph object of the class igraph.

Value

It is a list containing the following elements:

graph		a network object of the class igraph
network		a communities a list with the main statistics of the network
vertex		a data frame with the main measures of centrality and prestige of vertices.

Details

The function networkStat can calculate the main network statistics from a bibliographic network previously created by biblioNetwork.

See Also

biblioNetwork to compute a bibliographic network.

cocMatrix to compute a co-occurrence matrix.

biblioAnalysis to perform a bibliometric analysis.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# EXAMPLE Co-citation network

# to run the example, please remove # from the beginning of the following lines
# data(scientometrics)

# NetMatrix <- biblioNetwork(scientometrics, analysis = "co-citation", 
#      network = "references", sep = ";")

# netstat <- networkStat(NetMatrix) 

# }