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.

Algorithm	Fast Greedy	Walktrap	Label Propagation	Multilevel	Spinglass
Modularity	0.83	0.75	0.73	0.81	0.83
Number of communities	115	531	516	57	12
Maximal community size	1300	758	934	774	784
Mean of community size	55	12	12	111	527
Minimal community size	2	2	2	3	318
CV of community size	2.85	4.3	3.8	1.31	0.29