Collaboration network analysis of Turkey in regional basis

Modeling of data is an important step in process of interpreting the data and to understand the desired situation more clearly. The topic of social network structures is one of the highly studied subject and modeling is very important for social network mining. One of the modeling tools for such structures is Graphs. Graphs have been used for modeling and visualization tool of many structures such that computer networks, social networks, data structures and parallel programming topologies, etc. In this study, our data is scientific publications of Turkey and the goal_is to find the cliques of academic collaboration network of Turkey at regional base via BK (Bron-Kerbosch) algorithm. By finding cliques, we aim to explore how relations are established between universities of Turkey and to reveal prominent university in each region.