Gary Flake's work is excellent stuff, but I think Nature missed his point. The bibliometrics community has been doing link analysis for *50* years to identify academic communities by co-citation analysis.
For some pointers, try Googling "cocitation analysis"
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Gary Flake's work is excellent stuff, but I think Nature missed his point. The bibliometrics community has been doing link analysis for *50* years to identify academic communities by co-citation analysis. For some pointers, try Googling "cocitation analysis"