Zastosowanie struktur grafowych do analiz bibliometrycznych i webometrycznych. Modele i metody

The article presents the possibility to use the concept derived from the theory of graphs and methods of the social network analysis in bibliometrics and webometrics. Although the methods of the analysis of graph structures have been familiar to scholarship for a long time, it was the development of technologies which enable the application of these methods in practice in large collections of data that popularised them in many fields of science, and even of everyday life. Although the possibilities of the application of these methods in biblio- and webometrics were indicated by researchers even in the past century, there is a relatively small number of publications, especially released in this country, which put these methods to practice. Therefore in the present work the author presents the general concepts of the analyses and the models of aggregation of bibliometrical data, which may be adopted for the purposes of specific research. Although the considerations which are described are general and are independent of a specific analytical platform, the final part of the article presents an example of the Gephi application, which enables the implementation of the concepts in question.