دورية أكاديمية
Citation network analysis for viewpoint plurality assessment of historical corpora: The case of the medieval rabbinic literature.
| العنوان: | Citation network analysis for viewpoint plurality assessment of historical corpora: The case of the medieval rabbinic literature. |
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| المؤلفون: | Ben-Gigi N; Department of General History, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel., Zhitomirsky-Geffet M; Department of Information Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel., Katzoff B; Department of Talmud, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel., Schler J; Department of Computer Science, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel. |
| المصدر: | PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Jul 22; Vol. 19 (7), pp. e0307115. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 22 (Print Publication: 2024). |
| نوع المنشور: | Journal Article; Historical Article |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Public Library of Science Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101285081 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1932-6203 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 19326203 NLM ISO Abbreviation: PLoS One Subsets: MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Original Publication: San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science |
| مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Bibliometrics*, History, Medieval ; Humans |
| مستخلص: | Citation networks enable analysis of author groups, defining in-group dynamics, and mapping out inter-group relationships. While intellectual diversity and inclusiveness is one of the important principles of modern scholarship, it is intriguing to explore the extent to which these principles apply to historical communities of leaders and intellectuals. This paper introduces a novel methodological framework aimed at assessing the degree of viewpoint plurality and diversity of historical scholarship communities, through an in-depth analysis of the citations used in their literature, which has become possible due to the recently developed advanced computational analysis techniques. To achieve this goal, we have devised a set of new network-based indicators grounded in standard network metrics. These indicators can be applied at both the individual author and community levels. The developed methodology was applied to a citation network automatically constructed from a corpus of Rabbinic Halachic literature spanning the 10th to 15th centuries. This corpus includes over 5,000 citations from hundreds of books authored by approximately 140 Rabbinic scholars from six diverse geographic communities. We found that most of the authors and communities cite many more external resources from other communities than their own reflecting a willingness to engage with a diverse range of viewpoints. A more in-depth analysis based on the novel proportional diversity measures unveils more intriguing insights. Contrary to expectations, communities with the greatest number of external citations, such as Spain and Ashkenaz, surprisingly exhibit lower levels of viewpoint plurality compared to others, such as Italy and North Africa, elucidating a key finding of the study. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. (Copyright: © 2024 Ben-Gigi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.) |
| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20240722 Date Completed: 20240722 Latest Revision: 20240722 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20240723 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0307115 |
| PMID: | 39038055 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0307115 |