Figure 1

Analyzing support providers in acknowledgements. Different support providing entities identified in dissertation documents represented as nodes and their contextual similarities learned from document embeddings used as edge weights (a). Community detection revealed 5 distinct groups: Family, Friends & Colleagues, Academic, Administration and Spiritual. These groups are acknowledged using specific words and bi-partite relation points group specific properties (b). Location of mention in the acknowledgement text indicates norms among scholars to highlight distinct groups (c). Support providers are also differ in terms of their occurrence in acknowledgements and the corresponding sentiment they are referred (d)