This README file accompanies the dataset representing the multiplex coauthorship network in the internal report repository of the Pierre Auger Collaboration (http://www.auger.org/), the largest team of scientists working about ultra-high energy cosmic rays. If you use this dataset in your work either for analysis or for visualization, you should acknowledge/cite the following paper:
“Identifying Modular Flows on Multilayer Networks Reveals Highly Overlapping Organization in Interconnected Systems”
Manlio De Domenico, Andrea Lancichinetti, Alex Arenas, and Martin Rosvall
Physical Review X 5, 011027 (2015)
that can be found at the following URLs:
http://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.011027
This work has been supported by European Commission FET-Proactive project PLEXMATH (Grant No. 317614), the European project devoted to the investigation of multi-level complex systems and has been developed at the Alephsys Lab.
Visit
PLEXMATH: http://www.plexmath.eu/
ALEPHSYS: http://deim.urv.cat/~alephsys/
for further details.
The multiplex consists of layers corresponding to different working tasks within the Pierre Auger Collaboration. We considered all submissions between 2010 and 2012 and assigned each report to L=16 layers according to its keywords and its content, with manual disambiguation to avoid spurious results from an automated process. The authors acknowledge all members of the Pierre Auger Collaboration for kindly providing access to the metadata of its repository for internal technical reports and Dr. M. Settimo for kindly helping to classify all reports to the proper task(s).
The multiplex network used in the paper makes use of 16 layers corresponding to:
- Neutrinos
- Detector
- Enhancements
- Anisotropy
- Point-source
- Mass-composition
- Horizontal
- Hybrid-reconstruction
- Spectrum
- Photons
- Atmospheric
- SD-reconstruction
- Hadronic-interactions
- Exotics
- Magnetic
- Astrophysical-scenarios
There are 514 nodes, labelled with integer ID between 1 and 514, and 7153 coauthorship connections. The multiplex is undirected (with only one direction specified) and weighted, stored as edges list in the file
pierreauger_multiplex.edges
with format
layerID nodeID nodeID weight
The IDs of all layers are stored in
pierreauger_layers.txt
The IDs of nodes are not provided to preserve the privacy of the original authors.
This PIERRE AUGER MULTIPLEX DATASET is made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/
You should find a copy of the above licenses accompanying this dataset. If it is not the case, please contact us (see below).
A friendly summary of this license can be found here:
http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/
and is reported in the following.
====================================================== ODC Open Database License (ODbL) Summary
This is a human-readable summary of the ODbL 1.0 license. Please see the disclaimer below.
You are free:
- To Share: To copy, distribute and use the database.
- To Create: To produce works from the database.
- To Adapt: To modify, transform and build upon the database.
As long as you:
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Attribute: You must attribute any public use of the database, or works produced from the database, in the manner specified in the ODbL. For any use or redistribution of the database, or works produced from it, you must make clear to others the license of the database and keep intact any notices on the original database.
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If you find any error in the dataset or you have questions, please contact
Manlio De Domenico
University of Padua
Padua (Italy)
email: manlio.dedomenico@unipd.it