Names and its impacts on social networks properties: a study in a co-authorship network on sustainability

Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação

Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca, Brazil¹  Costa, Juliana de Sousa¹  Teixeira, Patrícia Mattos¹  Barbastefano, Rafael Garcia¹  Souza, Cristina¹ 

关键词: Social Network Analysis;    Co-authorship;    Disambiguation;    Sustainability;    Web of Science.;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1413-99362013000300006

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais * Escola de Biblioteconomia

【 摘 要 】

The authors' correct identification is a critical factor in studies of Social Network Analysis (SNA) involving co-authorship networks. The objective of this paper is to present the differences in properties between three co-authorship networks, generated from 28,916 articles on sustainability indexed in ISI/Web of Science, with different methods of identifying the authors. Density, diameter, average degree, Watts-Strogatz clusterization coefficient, giant component and the degree distributions were analyzed. The results indicated significant differences among networks, suggesting that studies based on co-authorship networks involving SNA may have impaired results if a proper treatment of authors' names is not performed.

【 授权许可】

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