21 research outputs found
Socioacademic Communities of Scholarship: Adult Education Journal Editorship and Graduate Assistantships
This study sought to determine the perceptions of graduate students who serve as editorial assistants to understand how their experiences within this socioacademic community of scholarship has assisted their professional development as emerging scholars in the field of adult and continuing educatio
Static and Dynamic Aspects of Scientific Collaboration Networks
Collaboration networks arise when we map the connections between scientists
which are formed through joint publications. These networks thus display the
social structure of academia, and also allow conclusions about the structure of
scientific knowledge. Using the computer science publication database DBLP, we
compile relations between authors and publications as graphs and proceed with
examining and quantifying collaborative relations with graph-based methods. We
review standard properties of the network and rank authors and publications by
centrality. Additionally, we detect communities with modularity-based
clustering and compare the resulting clusters to a ground-truth based on
conferences and thus topical similarity. In a second part, we are the first to
combine DBLP network data with data from the Dagstuhl Seminars: We investigate
whether seminars of this kind, as social and academic events designed to
connect researchers, leave a visible track in the structure of the
collaboration network. Our results suggest that such single events are not
influential enough to change the network structure significantly. However, the
network structure seems to influence a participant's decision to accept or
decline an invitation.Comment: ASONAM 2012: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social
Networks Analysis and Minin
Collaboration in sensor network research: an in-depth longitudinal analysis of assortative mixing patterns
Many investigations of scientific collaboration are based on statistical
analyses of large networks constructed from bibliographic repositories. These
investigations often rely on a wealth of bibliographic data, but very little or
no other information about the individuals in the network, and thus, fail to
illustrate the broader social and academic landscape in which collaboration
takes place. In this article, we perform an in-depth longitudinal analysis of a
relatively small network of scientific collaboration (N = 291) constructed from
the bibliographic record of a research center involved in the development and
application of sensor network and wireless technologies. We perform a
preliminary analysis of selected structural properties of the network,
computing its range, configuration and topology. We then support our
preliminary statistical analysis with an in-depth temporal investigation of the
assortative mixing of selected node characteristics, unveiling the researchers'
propensity to collaborate preferentially with others with a similar academic
profile. Our qualitative analysis of mixing patterns offers clues as to the
nature of the scientific community being modeled in relation to its
organizational, disciplinary, institutional, and international arrangements of
collaboration.Comment: Scientometrics (In press
Coauthorship and Thematic Networks in AAEP Annual Meetings
We analyze the coauthorship production of the AAEP Annual Meeting since 1964.
We use social network analysis for creating coauthorship networks and given
that any paper must be tagged with two JEL codes, we use this information for
also structuring a thematic network. Then we calculate network metrics and find
main actors and clusters for coauthors and topics. We distinguish a gender gap
in the sample. Thematic networks show a cluster of codes and the analysis of
the cluster shows the preeminence of the tags related to trade, econometric,
distribution/poverty and health and education topics.Comment: 30 pages, 12 Figures, 16 Table
Exploring Gender Role in Co-Authorship Networks for Computing Books: A Case Study in DBLP
Social network analysis and mining intend to explore for certain, previously unknown, and probably useful relational information from social and information networks. In our case, the research paper is about identifying collaborative networks between the authors (co-authors) of Computer Science books with the highlighted focus on the women computer scientistâs community. Often the hardest part of collaborating is knowing whom you should be collaborating with. Hence, this study will tackle this issue and will identify, and present a visualization of the co-authors which have already collaborated and how often they have collaborated. In this way, we are going to distinguish the successful collaboration between co-authors, the trend of further collaboration between them and the participation of women on these collaborations. This paper is research which is based on detailed and intensive analysis of the different ways of identifying these kinds of connections through secondary material.
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An exploratory social network analysis of academic research networks
For several decades, academics around the world have been collaborating with the view to support the development of their research domain. Having said that, the majority of scientific and technological policies try to encourage the creation of strong inter-related research groups in order to improve the efficiency of research outcomes and subsequently research funding allocation. In this paper, we attempt to highlight and thus, to demonstrate how these collaborative networks are developing in practice. To achieve this, we have developed an automated tool for extracting data about joint article publications and analyzing them from the perspective of social network analysis. In this case study, we have limited data from works published in 2010 by England academic and research institutions. The outcomes of this work can help policy makers in realising the current status of research collaborative networks in England
Co-authorship trends and collaboration patterns in the Slovenian sociological community
The article deals with some processes generating increases in research
collaboration; one of the most characteristic tendencies of modern science. The
major empirical focus is the increasing tendency to co-authorship in sociological
publications in Slovenia. Bibliometric analyses, based on two joint national
research information systems (SICRIS and COBISS), show the amount of coauthored
publications in the field of sociology have increased over the last two
decades. Blockmodeling of co-authorship networks in sociology has shown that
sociologists who are not systematically tied to strongly connected and wellestablished
research groups produce the best scientific publications in their field