Oxytocin and Social Behavior Citation Network of 1,902 Academic Articles

1,902 peer-reviewed articles on oxytocin and social behavior, filtered from 2,747 Web of Science records. Rhodri Leng at the University of Edinburgh constructed a directed citation network from these articles, with papers as nodes and citations as edges. The underlying data was collected via a search performed on September 13, 2021.

Use Cases

• Analyze citation network structure and key influential papers based on the constructed edge-list.
• Study the evolution of oxytocin research over time based on publication year metadata.
• Identify research clusters or communities within the social behavior literature using network analysis tools.
• Validate bibliometric filtering methods by comparing Web of Science and PubMed classifications mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Focuses on 1,902 primary research articles after rigorous filtering from an initial 2,747 records.
• Includes node attributes such as title, authors, journal, year, and citation counts for network analysis.
• Manual validation steps were applied, including checking PubMed classifications to remove review articles.

Limitations

• Row count for the node and edge lists is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Web of Science Core Collection via University of Edinburgh subscription.

Collection Method

Search query for titles containing oxytocin-related terms and topics containing social behavior terms, followed by manual and automated filtering.

Time Range

Articles published up to September 13, 2021.