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Social Network Analysis Of Researchers' Communication And Collaborative Networks Using Self-Reported Data, Oguz Cimenler
Social Network Analysis Of Researchers' Communication And Collaborative Networks Using Self-Reported Data, Oguz Cimenler
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This research seeks an answer to the following question: what is the relationship between the structure of researchers' communication network and the structure of their collaborative output networks (e.g. co-authored publications, joint grant proposals, and joint patent applications), and the impact of these structures on their citation performance and the volume of collaborative research outputs? Three complementary studies are performed to answer this main question as discussed below.
1. Study I: A frequently used output to measure scientific (or research) collaboration is co-authorship in scholarly publications. Less frequently used are joint grant proposals and patents. Many scholars believe that co-authorship …