Choose a clearly defined publication collection and document the database query used to obtain it. Clean author or organization variants before interpreting clusters, then compare several thresholds rather than treating one map as definitive. Explain missing coverage and counting choices when presenting a visualization, since the source dataset shapes every apparent pattern.
This is best suited to researchers exploring publication and citation networks. Before committing a larger project, account for these trade-offs: source database access may cost extra; coverage and cleaning choices influence maps.
