VIS · Terra · C4 — citations

Relevant library papers and the approaches used:

1. Reducing Snapshots to Points: A Visual Analytics Approach to Dynamic Network Exploration
   Stef van den Elzen et al., 2016
   - Used for representing time-windowed co-authorship networks as evolving network states.
   - Informs the snapshot-state projection for finding stable periods, transitions, and unusual restructuring.

2. NodeTrix: A Hybrid Visualization of Social Networks
   Nathalie Henry et al., 2007
   - Used for detailed inspection of dense collaboration communities while preserving links between communities.
   - Informs the proposed matrix-plus-node-link view for core structure, internal collaboration, and boundary-spanning authors.

3. Human-Steered Topic Modelling / UTOPIAN: User-Driven Topic Modeling Based on Interactive Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
   J. Choo et al., 2013
   - Used for characterizing communities’ research foci from titles, abstracts, and keywords.
   - Informs analyst-guided topic refinement: merging, splitting, seeding, and editing topics rather than accepting an automatic topic model uncritically.

4. SOMFlow: Guided Exploratory Cluster Analysis with Self-Organizing Maps and Analytic Provenance
   D. Sacha et al., 2018
   - Used for the iterative, human-guided approach to community detection and resolution selection.
   - Informs maintaining provenance of parameter choices, community refinements, and interpretations across analysis iterations.

5. Guided Visual Exploration of Genomic Stratifications in Cancer (StratomeX)
   M. Streit et al., 2014
   - Used for comparing overlapping groups and tracing membership across alternative or evolving groupings.
   - Informs the community-overlap views, membership comparisons, and linked inspection of shared members and associated characteristics.

6. Spatio-temporal Analysis and Modelling
   N. Andrienko and G. Andrienko, 2013
   - Relevant to iterative clustering of temporal profiles and analyst validation of cluster coherence.
   - Informs the recommendation to inspect and refine temporal community groupings rather than treat clustering as final.

7. Visual Analysis of Multivariate State Transition Graphs
   A. J. Pretorius and J. J. van Wijk, 2006
   - Relevant to analyzing transitions among abstract states.
   - Informs the explicit treatment of community continuations, splits, merges, births, and dissolutions as interpretable evolution events.

8. Jigsaw: Supporting Investigative Analysis through Interactive Visualization
   J. Stasko et al., 2008
   - Relevant to grounding high-level patterns in original textual evidence.
   - Informs the paper-level inspector, where analysts validate community-topic interpretations using underlying titles, abstracts, authorship records, and citations.