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Explaining Wikipedia Page Similarity Using Network Science

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Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST 2023)

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The relationship between sciences and scientific production is often established in a very organized way, with a top-down approach. But the link between sciences is much more dynamic and organic. To analyze this connection, we use similarity between Wikipedia science pages. We used network science and cluster analysis techniques. Results presented show us the boundary scientific fields between different areas and also suggests that this network is an ultra small world.

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Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge financial support from FCT -Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), national funding through research grant UIDB/04521/2020. This work is also supported by national funds through PhD grant (UI/BD/153587/2022) supported by FCT.

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  1. INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Alves Redol 9, 1000-029, Lisbon, Portugal

    Joao T. Aparicio

  2. Institute Mihailo Pupin, University of Belgrade, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia

    Valentina Timčenko

  3. Advance/CSG, ISEG (Lisbon School of Economics and Management), Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Carlos J. Costa

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  1. ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Cávado, Portugal

    Alvaro Rocha

  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Gintautas Dzemyda

  4. DCT, Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal

    Fernando Moreira

  5. TeCIP Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Valentina Colla

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Aparicio, J.T., Timčenko, V., Costa, C.J. (2024). Explaining Wikipedia Page Similarity Using Network Science. In: Rocha, A., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Colla, V. (eds) Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 802. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45651-0_3

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