Who is the Best Connected Researcher? An Analysis of Co-Authorship Networks of Knowledge Management from 2000 to 2010

Mei-yun Zuo (), Xiao-qing Hua () and Xiao-wei Wen ()
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Mei-yun Zuo: School of Information, Renmin University of China
Xiao-qing Hua: School of Information, Renmin University of China
Xiao-wei Wen: School of Information, Renmin University of China

Chapter Chapter 81 in The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2013, pp 761-770 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Who is the best connected researcher? This study uses social network analysis to address this question. Specifically, 1831 papers published in six top knowledge management research journals from 2000 to 2010 are analyzed. Firstly, by analyzing the degree distribution of the network, we find there exist a few researchers who have quite a large cooperation network, and in contrast a large sum of common researchers who have just a few cooperators. Next, we respectively identify 20 authors who have the most connections with others according to degree centrality, who are in the core positions according to closeness centrality and who play the “bridge” roles in the network according to betweenness centrality. Finally, the biggest connected sub-graphs, the 57-Actors Graph is extracted and discussed.

Keywords: Knowledge management; Co-authorship network; Social network analysis; Individual status; Academic groups (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38427-1_81

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