Special issue of the journal Sociology 4M, dedicated to network analysis, edited by ANR-Lab
A special issue of the journal 'Sociology: Methodology, Methods, Mathematical Modeling' (Sociology:4M) has been published, dedicated to the methodology of network analysis in social sciences. The guest editor of the issue was the head of ANR-Lab Daria Maltseva, and 3 out of 5 articles were written by the laboratory members:
- Comparative analysis of WoS and eLibrary capabilities for analyzing bibliographic networks (Daria Maltseva, Irina Pavlova, Lika Kapustina, Vasilisa Vaschenko, Dalibor Fiala)
- Topic modeling for short texts: comparative analysis of algorithms (Vasilisa Vaschenko)
- Qualitative network analysis in practice: comparison of methods for constructing network maps (Aruna Kim)
The issue also contains two more articles devoted to the practical application of network analysis: the work by Sergey Tkach, Polina Vorobyova and Maya Rusakova demonstrates the implementation of discourse analysis and conceptual mapping using the example of healthy eating communities, and the article by Olga Chepyuk, Olga Angelova, Andrey Sochkov and Tatyana Podolskaya presents a typology of the professional trajectories of gifted individuals, carried out using neural network analysis.
Congratulations to our colleagues on their publications!
Daria Maltseva on preparing the issue:
We have a long tradition of publishing relations with the journal Sociology 4M: the editor-in-chief of the journal Inna Feliksovna Devyatko and the editor-in-chief of the journal Kirill Andreevich Gavrilov are very interested in the topic of network analysis, and my colleagues and I managed to publish a number of articles on the topics that we work on in the laboratory. It was even more pleasant for me to move to a new level and become a guest editor of a special issue of the journal! We received a fairly large number of responses from authors wishing to participate in the special issue, so we decided to make two issues. The authors went through the review process, and my colleagues and I did a serious job of proofreading and editing the articles – and now our first issue has already been published! The remaining works accepted for the special issue will be published in the following issues of Sociology 4M. I would like to note the high professional level of the work process in the journal, how deeply the editors immerse themselves in the texts of the articles. For me, working on this issue has become a large and interesting project, which I can definitely be proud of – after all, this is the first special issue of a Russian journal dedicated to network analysis!