Figure 2. Publication network for an individual researcher at Rush University Medical Center.

Each node represents a co-author of the original query author (the highlighted yellow node). The network was created by entering the author’s last name and first initial into the PubMed query bar within the Social Network App. The network was then automatically created. The yFiles Organic layout was applied to better visualize the network. Node size represents the cumulative number of the author’s publication citation counts as automatically retrieved from PubMed based on the set of publications associated with the node (the count only includes citations of publications that are in PubMed Central). Thickness of the edges connecting the nodes represents the number of publications the two authors have published together.