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wiki_science — Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)

Description

Network of similarities among branches of science, built by A. Calderone in January 2020 from the English Wikipedia. Nodes are the Wikipedia pages listed in the outlines of the natural, formal, social and applied sciences (pages titled "Outline of ..." excluded). The main text of each page was preprocessed (stop-word removal and lemmatization), and the pages were compared by the cosine similarity of their contents. Two pages are connected if their similarity is significantly high, i.e. has a z-score larger than 1.96. Isolated nodes were removed.

The network has the following properties:

  • name: the title of the Wikipedia page.
  • Class: the branch of science of the page, according to the outline it was taken from: Natural, Formal, Social or Applied.
  • WikipediaUrl: the URL of the page.
  • CosineSimilarity: the cosine similarity of the contents of the two pages.
Tags
Informational Relatedness Unweighted
Citation
Upstream URL 403
https://figshare.com/articles/A_Wikipedia_Based_Map_of_Science/11638932
Networks
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Column legend
$\left<k\right>$
Mean degree
$\sigma_k$
Standard deviation of the degrees
$\lambda_h$
Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
$\tau$
Random walk mixing time
$r$
Degree assortativity
$c$
Global clustering coefficient
$\oslash$
(Pseudo-) diameter
$S$
Relative size of the largest component
NPs
Node properties
EPs
Edge properties
Name Nodes Edges $\left<k\right>$ $\sigma_k$ $\lambda_h$ $\tau$ $r$ $c$ $\oslash$ $S$ Kind Mode NPs EPs gt GraphML GML csv
wiki_science 687 6,523 18.99 17.98 41.59 14.55 0.24 0.47 9 0.99 Undirected Unipartite Class WikipediaUrl name CosineSimilarity 68 KiB 91 KiB 88 KiB 85 KiB
Ridiculograms*
* These are automatically generated force-directed visualizations, and can be quite meaningless for networks both big and small. They should not be taken seriously as sources of scientific insight. See here for a discussion.