Toward the discovery of citation cartels in citation networks

Frontiers in Physics

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2016, Pages

  Fister, Iztok ^a   Perc, Matjaž ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Citation cartel; Citation network; Community detection; Cooperation; Network science

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMICS; CITATION CARTEL; CITATION NETWORKS; COMMUNITY DETECTION; COOPERATION; IN NETWORKS; NETWORK SCIENCE;

EID: 85035134743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296424X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2016.00049     Document Type: Article

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