Co-authorship among the Fellows of the International Communication Association

George A. Barnett () and Han Woo Park ()
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George A. Barnett: University of California, Davis
Han Woo Park: YeungNam University

Scientometrics, 2023, vol. 128, issue 6, No 8, 3418 pages

Abstract: Abstract This study employs social network analysis to describe the structure of collaboration among Fellows of the International Communication Association (ICA), an elite group of social scientists, using co-authorship data gathered from Google Scholar. Network analysis revealed that fellows were loosely connected, consistent with past research on elite scholars. Although the association is “international,” over 80% of its members were educated and over 75% were most recently employed in the United States. However, North America did not significantly predict network centrality. No differences in network centrality were observed based on the status of being a former ICA President. Males tended to be slightly more central than females. Unlike for the ICA membership as a whole, Fellows were not differentiated into separate research communities. Furthermore, Fellows have conducted little international collaboration. These results are discussed in terms of the prior literature and its shortcomings.

Keywords: Co-authorship; Elite scholar; Network analysis; International Communication Association; Google Scholar (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-023-04705-6

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