Yicong Jiang and Zheng Tracy Ke’s contribution to the Discussion of ‘Root and community inference on the latent growth process of a network’ by Crane and Xu
江一聪与柯征对《网络潜在增长过程的根节点与社群推断》的讨论
We congratulate the authors on an excellent paper! Crane and Xu (2021) proposed novel methods for finding ‘root nodes’ from a single snapshot of a dynamic network process, with several interesting real-data examples. We now consider a new application for finding ‘root papers’ in a citation network. The MADStat dataset (Ji et al., 2022; Ke et al., 2023) consists of the bibtex and citation information of over 83 K papers, which we use to construct paper citation networks.…