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@article{Clough:2016:10.1016/j.physa.2015.12.053,
author = {Clough, JR and Evans, TS},
doi = {10.1016/j.physa.2015.12.053},
journal = {Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications},
pages = {235--247},
title = {What is the dimension of citation space?},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2015.12.053},
volume = {448},
year = {2016}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - Citation networks represent the flow of information between agents. They are constrained in time and so form directed acyclic graphs which have a causal structure. Here we provide novel quantitative methods to characterise that structure by adapting methods used in the causal set approach to quantum gravity by considering the networks to be embedded in a Minkowski spacetime and measuring its dimension using Myrheim–Meyer and Midpoint-scaling estimates. We illustrate these methods on citation networks from the arXiv, supreme court judgements from the USA, and patents and find that otherwise similar citation networks have measurably different dimensions. We suggest that these differences can be interpreted in terms of the level of diversity or narrowness in citation behaviour.
AU - Clough,JR
AU - Evans,TS
DO - 10.1016/j.physa.2015.12.053
EP - 247
PY - 2016///
SN - 0378-4371
SP - 235
TI - What is the dimension of citation space?
T2 - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2015.12.053
UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1274v3
VL - 448
ER -