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Coauthor Network Analysis Of Journal Of Applied Communications Articles From 2008-2017, Audrey E. H. King, Quisto Settle
Coauthor Network Analysis Of Journal Of Applied Communications Articles From 2008-2017, Audrey E. H. King, Quisto Settle
Journal of Applied Communications
Coauthorship networks offer a glimpse of collaborations within a discipline, illustrating the social networks that enable users to leverage more resources than they could on their own. This study used relational bibliometric data from the last 10 years of the Journal of Applied Communications (JAC) to create a social network analysis. The following research objectives guided this study: 1) Describe authorship, category (i.e., research article, commentary, book review), and number of JAC papers published from 2008 to 2017, 2) Describe the coauthor network characteristics of JAC papers, and 3) Describe the relationship between publication frequency and social …