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Scholarly Network Analysis

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Synonyms

Disciplinary; Knowledge flow; Scholarly communication; Scholarly networks; Science maps; Scientific collaboration; Scientific evaluation; Topic identification

Glossary

Node (in scholarly networks):

Units such as words, papers, patents, authors, journals, institutions, fields, and countries

Edge (in scholarly networks):

Citation, co-citation, co-word, coauthor, bibliographic coupling, hybrid, or heterogeneous relations

Scholarly network:

The combination of edge properties and node properties defines a scholarly network

Macro-level approach:

Statistics that are used to identify the global structural features of networks, including component, bicomponent, shortest distance, clustering coefficient, degree distribution, and error and attack tolerance

Meso-level approach:

Approaches that focus on the behaviors of a group of actors, including topic identification and community detection

Microlevel approach:

Indicators that are useful to understand individual node’s power,...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Erjia Yan

  2. School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Ying Ding

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Management, Institute of Informatics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Przemysław Kazienko

  2. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

    Jaroslaw Jankowski

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Yan, E., Ding, Y. (2018). Scholarly Network Analysis. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_249

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