Cs 224w Project Final Report

Many networks are worked with and viewed as static objects while this often isn’t the case. Oftentimes, they change over time as new nodes are added and connections are made. One such class of networks that evolve over time are citation networks, networks that show how different authors or papers reference each other. As new papers are published and added to the network, the structure and importance of each node shifts. In this paper, we will study network evolution on citation networks and how the relative importance (represented by centrality) of a paper develops over time. The goal of the project is to be able to see how the centrality of a paper in a citation network develops after it is published and make an attempt at being able to predict this change over time in centrality.