TY - GEN
T1 - An exploratory social network analysis of academic research networks
AU - Toral, Sergio L.
AU - Bessis, Nik
AU - Martinez-Torres, M. R.
AU - Franc, Florian
AU - Barrero, Federico
AU - Xhafa, Fatos
PY - 2012/1/19
Y1 - 2012/1/19
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Bibliometrics
KW - Collaborative research networks
KW - Knowledge networks
KW - Social network analysis
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U2 - 10.1109/INCoS.2011.49
DO - 10.1109/INCoS.2011.49
M3 - Conference proceeding (ISBN)
AN - SCOPUS:84857151730
SN - 9780769545790
T3 - Proceedings - 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems, INCoS 2011
SP - 21
EP - 26
BT - Proceedings - 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems, INCoS 2011
T2 - 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Networking and CollaborativeSystems, INCoS 2011
Y2 - 30 November 2011 through 2 December 2011
ER -