Research Article

Detecting and Visualizing the Communities of Innovation in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration Based on the Patent Cooperation Network

Table 1

Comparison of community detection algorithms in BTH patent cooperation network.

AlgorithmFast GreedyWalktrapLabel PropagationMultilevelSpinglass

Modularity0.830.750.730.810.83
Number of communities1155315165712
Maximal community size1300758934774784
Mean of community size551212111527
Minimal community size2223318
CV of community size2.854.33.81.310.29