Bipartite Network Analysis

Bipartite network analysis, formalised by Borgatti and Everett in 1997, is a graph-structural method for studying networks in which nodes are divided into two disjoint sets — actors and events — and edges exist only between sets, never within them. It is the natural framework for author–paper, patient–disease, user–product, and any other affiliation data, and it extends one-mode network analysis by providing metrics and projection techniques tailored to the two-mode structure.