Interpreting tree rings

[Stephan De Spiegeleire]

This is another thing I am trying to figure out. Here is an example of some tree rings in a (Dimensions-based) network with references as nodes. . After generating the network, and then creating the clusters - I clicked on Tree Ring History to examine the seminal articles in the 'top' (#0) cluster and their 'tree rings' (which I consider to be a quite intuitive concept). But so I still have some questions
am I correct in assuming that the size of the circle corresponds to the number of citations a certain article has received
that this is JUST (based on the chosen colormap) the extremes - so circles with a bigger red ring are 'older', and those with more yellow than red are more recent?
Also - are there any tricks to make sure I 'click' on the 'right' tree ring if I want to big deeper? Because sometimes, they're hidden behind each other...
Thanks!

[Chaomei Chen]

If you already ran burst detection, then be careful about the red color. Note the red is different from the colors on the legend bar. So the bright red indicates citation bursts, other redish colors indicate the years of publication. You can click on the burst detection again to hide those burst red. The size of a node is the total citations of the corresponding reference. You can reveal more hidden nodes by shrinking the node size with logarithmic transformation: Nodes>Node Size>Logarithmic.

[Stephan De Spiegeleire]

Thanks Chaomei! This does indeed work/help.