⚒️ Fields reference

 

Fields reference

All the fields in the factors table

 
Field name
Explanation
incoming_links
number of citations of all the incoming links to a particular factor
outgoing_links
number of citations of all the outgoing links from a particular factor
outcome-ness (%)
A factor with a high outcomness percentage is mostly an outcome; it has mostly incoming links. If it has low outcomeness it has mostly outgoing links so it is mostly a driver. Outcomeness is the proportion of citations of incoming links out of all the citations of a particular factor: a normalised version of the Copeland Score (Copeland, 1951). So factors with high outcomeness can be thought of as “outcomes”. And factors with low outcomeness can be though of as inputs or drivers.
Citation count aka Link count
Number of citations of a given factor or link
Source count
Number of sources mentioning a given factor or link. Source count cannot be higher than citation count and may be a lot lower if some sources mentioned the same factor or link many times.
Don’t forget that outdegree + indegree maybe greater than citation count if a factor has self-loops

All the fields in the links table

 
Field name
Explanation
Citation count aka Link count
Number of citations of a given factor or link
Source count
Number of sources mentioning a given factor or link. Source count cannot be higher than citation count and may be a lot lower if some sources mentioned the same factor or link many times.

All the fields in the sources table

 
Technical term
Explanation

All the fields in the sources table

 
Field name
Explanation

All the fields in the questions table

 
Field name
Explanation

All the fields in the mentions table

 
Field name
Explanation