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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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Yan, E., Ding, Y. (2016). Scholarly Network Analysis. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_249-1

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