Table 4 Louvain communities in COVID-19-related research and their size, network density, most central topics (according to degree centrality) and the most frequent MAG disciplines that are identified in them (\(\ge\)10% of topics)
From: Author multidisciplinarity and disciplinary roles in field of study networks
Size | Density | Most central nodes | MAG disciplines | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
(i) | 23 | 0.69 | Surgery, pathology, radiology | Medicine |
(ii) | 22 | 0.26 | Intensive care medicine, emergency medicine | Medicine |
(iii) | 70 | 0.30 | Public relations, economic growth, demography | Economics |
(iv) | 82 | 0.18 | Virology, nanotechnology, cell biology | Biology |
(v) | 42 | 0.27 | Artificial intelligence, algorithm, data science | Computer science, mathematics |
(vi) | 5 | 0.90 | Atmospheric sciences, climatology | Geography |
(vii) | 4 | 0.83 | Astrophysics, astronomy, classical mechanics | Physics, engineering |