Sieving publishing communities in DBLP

Abstract

DBLP is a bibliographic database with more than one million data entries, collected from the last 70 years, and labeled with diverse attributes like the authorspsila names, the publication title, and the year of publishing. With this as ground, the motivation of applying analytical examinations to identifying publishing communities become meaningful. In this respect and focusing on the idea of figuring out existing associative connectivity between authors, this work exposes some novel information as for example the most frequent community patterns, the ldquoDonald E. Ullmanrdquo-star of 1975, and an example for a typical extreme-sized community. We close with a temporal flight throughout the decades while observing the extreme-sized community and highlight perspectives and further analytical suggestions.