
Social Networks Analysis | |
Keywords: | networks; citations; collaborations; bibliometrics; scientometrics; informetrics; PageRank; Web mining |
Status: | In progress |
People on this project:

Karel Ježek
Phone: +420 377632475
E-mail: jezek_ka@kiv.zcu.cz
WWW: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Je%C5%BEek_(informatik)
Karel is the former group coordinator and a supervisor of PhD students working at research projects of this Group.

Dalibor Fiala
Phone: +420 377 63 2429
E-mail: dalfia@kiv.zcu.cz
WWW: http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/~dalfia/
Dalibor is the research group coordinator and an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic. He is interested in data mining, web mining, information retrieval, informetrics, and information science.

Michal Nykl
E-mail: nyklm@kiv.zcu.cz
WWW: http://home.zcu.cz/~nyklm/
Michal is researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (Czech Republic). He is Software engineer and his interest is focused on the Graph structure mining algorithms, which are used for Social network analysis, Text-mining, NPL and similar problems.
Publications:

Are Papers Asking Questions Cited More Frequently in Computer Science? | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Pavel Král, Martin Dostal |
Source: | Computers, vol. 10, no. 8, art. no. 96, 2021. |
ISSN: | 2073-431X |
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Reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) of computer science papers from Eastern Europe | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Lutz Bornmann |
Source: | Aslib Journal of Information Management, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 305-319, 2020. |
ISSN: | 2050-3806 |
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Convexity in scientific collaboration networks | |
Authors: | Lovro Šubelj, Dalibor Fiala, Tadej Ciglarič, Luka Kronegger |
Source: | Journal of Informetrics, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 10-31, 2019. |
ISSN: | 1751-1577 |
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Computer Science Papers in Web of Science: A Bibliometric Analysis | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Gabriel Tutoky |
Source: | Publications, vol. 5, no. 4, art. no. 23, 2017. |
ISSN: | 2304-6775 |
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PageRank-based prediction of award-winning researchers and the impact of citations | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Gabriel Tutoky |
Source: | Journal of Informetrics, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 1044-1068, 2017. |
ISSN: | 1751-1577 |
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Publication boost in Web of Science journals and its effect on citation distributions | |
Authors: | Lovro Šubelj, Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 1018-1023, 2017. |
ISSN: | 2330-1635 |
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Získávání dat z bibliografických databází | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Proc. Data a znalosti 2017, Pilsen, Czech Republic, pp. 72-76. (ISBN 978-80-261-0720-0) |
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Comparison of Czech and Slovak independent research in the 21st century | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Yuh-Shan Ho |
Source: | Current Science, vol. 110, no. 8, pp. 1524-1531, 2016. |
ISSN: | 0011-3891 |
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Editorial Board Membership, Time to Accept, and the Effect on the Citation Counts of Journal Articles | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Cecília Havrilová, Martin Dostal, Ján Paralič |
Source: | Publications, vol. 4, no. 3, art. no. 21, 2016. |
ISSN: | 2304-6775 |
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Ageing of Edges in Collaboration Networks and its Effect on Author Rankings | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Gabriel Tutoky, Peter Koncz, Ján Paralič |
Source: | Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 149-160, 2015. |
ISSN: | 1785-8860 |
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Author ranking based on personalized PageRank | |
Authors: | Michal Nykl, Michal Campr, Karel Ježek |
Source: | Journal of Informetrics. 9(4), pp.777-799, 2015. |
ISSN: | 1751-1577 |
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Computer science in Eastern Europe 1989-2014: a bibliometric study | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Peter Willett |
Source: | Aslib Journal of Information Management, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 526-541, 2015. |
ISSN: | 2050-3806 |
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Do PageRank-based author rankings outperform simple citation counts? | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Lovro Šubelj, Slavko Žitnik, Marko Bajec |
Source: | Journal of Informetrics, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 334-348, 2015. |
ISSN: | 1751-1577 |
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Moderné informetrické metódy hodnotenia vedeckého výskumu | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Martin Dostal, Ján Paralič, Gabriel Tutoky, Cecília Havrilová |
Source: | Proc. DATA A ZNALOSTI 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 81-84. (ISBN 978-80-248-3824-3) |
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Twenty years of Czech science: A bibliometric analysis | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Yuh-Shan Ho |
Source: | Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 85-102, 2015. |
ISSN: | 1394-6234 |
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Current Index: A Proposal for a Dynamic Rating System for Researchers | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 850-855, 2014. |
ISSN: | 2330-1635 |
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Exploration of Document Classification with Linked Data and PageRank | |
Authors: | Martin Dostal, Michal Nykl, Karel Ježek |
Source: | Intelligent Distributed Computing VII, Studies in Computational Intelligence 511, 2014, pp 37-43. ISSN:1860-949X, ISBN:978-3-319-01570-5. |
ISSN: | 1860-949X |
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Network-based statistical comparison of citation topology of bibliographic databases | |
Authors: | Lovro Šubelj, Dalibor Fiala, Marko Bajec |
Source: | Scientific Reports, vol. 4, art. no. 6496, 2014. |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
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PageRank variants in the evaluation of citation networks | |
Authors: | Michal Nykl, Karel Ježek, Dalibor Fiala, Martin Dostal |
Source: | Journal of Informetrics, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 683–692, 2014. |
ISSN: | 1751-1577 |
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Sub-organizations of institutions in computer science journals at the turn of the century | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 53-68, 2014. |
ISSN: | 1394-6234 |
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Extracting information from CiteSeer’s textual data | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 176-182, 2013. |
ISSN: | 1992-8645 |
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From CiteSeer to CiteSeerX: Author rankings based on coauthorship networks | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 191-204, 2013. |
ISSN: | 1992-8645 |
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Linked Data and PageRank based classification | |
Authors: | Martin Dostal, Michal Nykl, Karel Ježek, Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Proceedings of IADIS International Conference Theory and Practice in Modern Computing 2013 (part of MCCSIS 2013). Praha: IADIS Press, 2013, pp. 61-64, ISBN: 978-972-8939-94-6. |
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Modern Informetric Methods for the Evaluation of Scientific Research | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Habilitation thesis, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, 2013. |
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Science Evaluation in the Czech Republic: The Case of Universities | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Societies, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 266-279, 2013. |
ISSN: | 2075-4698 |
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Semantic Markup for Web Applications | |
Authors: | Martin Dostal, Dalibor Fiala, Karel Ježek |
Source: | Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer, Communication, Information Sciences, and Engineering (ICCCISE 2013), Paris, France, pp. 506 - 509, 2013. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, vol. 76, April 2013. ISSN: 2010-376X. |
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Suborganizations of Institutions in Library and Information Science Journals | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Information, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 351-366, 2013. |
ISSN: | 2078-2489 |
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Testing Ranking Algorithms on CiteSeer Data | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Global Journal of Advanced Engineering Technologies, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 176-180, 2013. |
ISSN: | 2277-6370 |
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Bibliometric analysis of CiteSeer data for countries | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Information Processing and Management, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 242-253, 2012. |
ISSN: | 0306-4573 |
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In Czech: Varianty použití PageRanku pro citační analýzu | |
Authors: | Michal Nykl, Karel Ježek |
Source: | Datakon 2012, pp. 87-97, ISBN 978-80-553-1049-7, 2012. |
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Time-aware PageRank for bibliographic networks | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Journal of Informetrics, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 370-388, 2012. |
ISSN: | 1751-1577 |
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Mining citation information from CiteSeer data | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Scientometrics, vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 553-562, 2011. |
ISSN: | 0138-9130 |
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PageRank and analysis of citation cycles | |
Authors: | Petr Heller, Michal Nykl, Karel Ježek |
Source: | ITAT 2011: Zborník príspevkov prezentovaných na konferencii ITAT. Vrátná dolina, Slovensko, 2011. ISBN 978-80-89557-01-1 |
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Web Mining Methods for the Detection of Authoritative Sources: Theory and Practice | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | VDM Verlag, Saarbruecken, 2009. (ISBN 978-3639173376) |
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Exploration and Evaluation of Citation Networks | |
Authors: | Karel Ježek, Dalibor Fiala, Josef Steinberger |
Source: | Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7727-6315-0, pp 351-362, Toronto, Canada 2008 |
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PageRank for bibliographic networks | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, François Rousselot, Karel Ježek |
Source: | Scientometrics, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 135-158, 2008. |
ISSN: | 0138-9130 |
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In Czech: Využití struktury webu pro vyhledávání autoritativních institucí a osob | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Karel Ježek, François Rousselot |
Source: | Proc. 6th Annual Conf. ZNALOSTI 2007, Ostrava, Czech Republic, pp. 300-303, 2007. |
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Ranking Algorithms For Web Sites: Finding Authoritative Academic Web Sites and Researchers | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, François Rousselot, Karel Ježek |
Source: | Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. Web Information Systems and Technologies WEBIST'07, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 372-375, 2007. (ISBN 978-972-8865-78-8) |
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Web Mining Methods for the Detection of Authoritative Sources | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | PhD thesis, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic and Louis Pasteur University Strasbourg, France, 2007. |
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Finding Authoritative Researchers on Academic Web Sites | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Karel Ježek, François Rousselot |
Source: | Proc. CISE'06, Cairo, Egypt, Enformatika Transactions on Engineering, Computing and Technology, Vol. 17, pp. 74-79, 2006. |
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Web Mining and Its Applications to Researchers Support | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Technical report no. DCSE/TR-2005-06, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, 2005. |
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Retrieving Citations on the Web | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Karel Ježek |
Source: | Proc. Int. Conf. on Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support ICKEDS’04, Porto, Portugal, pp. 481-488, 2004. |
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A System for Citations Retrieval on the Web | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | MSc thesis, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, 2003. |
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