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An integrated examination of collaboration coauthorship networks through structural cohesion, holes, hierarchy, and percolating clusters
Author(s) -
Ghosh Jaideep,
Kshitij Avinash
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.23058
Subject(s) - cohesion (chemistry) , computer science , hierarchy , network science , data science , structural holes , context (archaeology) , complex network , network structure , operations research , sociology , world wide web , social capital , political science , geography , social science , theoretical computer science , engineering , chemistry , organic chemistry , archaeology , law
Structural cohesion, hierarchy, holes, and percolating clusters share a complementary existence in many social networks. Although the individual influences of these attributes on the structure and function of a network have been analyzed in detail, a more accurate picture emerges in proper perspective and context only when research methods are employed to integrate their collective impacts on the network. In a major research project, we have undertaken this examination. This paper presents an extract from this project, using a global network assessment of these characteristics. We apply our methods to analyze the collaboration networks of a subset of researchers in India through their coauthored papers in peer‐reviewed journals and conference proceedings in management science, including related areas of information technology and economics. We find the I ndian networks to be currently suffering from a high degree of fragmentation, which severely restricts researchers' long‐rage connectivities in the networks. Comparisons are made with networks of a similar sample of researchers working in the U nited S tates.