Citation network nodelist, edgelist, and visualization (UNIGE MA Thesis)

The data in this deposit were used in the author's Thesis for the degree of Master of Arts in Philosophy with Specialization in the Philosophy of Science, under the supervision of Prof. Marcel Weber (Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva, Switzerland).

This deposit contains three files: (i) a list of nodes; (ii) a list of edges; and (iii) a digital image of the network as it appears in the Appendix A of the Thesis. The lists of nodes and edges contained here were manually built by the author, and the visualization was obtained using the software Gephi.

The nodes represent specific texts related to the historical development of Expected Utility Theory (as explained in section 3.1 of the Thesis), corresponding to the texts registered in the Citation Network Texts section of the References of the Thesis. The data and visualization in this deposit use the convention "authorsORIGINALYEAR". For example, Pareto (1909/1979) is represented as "pareto1909", and Safra et al. (1990a) as "safra.etal1990a". The color of each node depends on the subsection of the historical description (section 3.2) they appear in, corresponding to the categories of the "topic" column of the nodelist. And their sizes are proportional to how many times they were mentioned by others in the network.

The edges represent citations between texts and their colors represent mention types (as defined in section 3.1), such that agreement are in green, disagreements are in light blue, and neutral mentions are in light gray. The reasons for the final categorization of potentially unclear mention types are noted in the "reasons" column.