On the correlation between research performance and social network analysis measures applied to research collaboration networks

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Abbasi, Alireza ^a,b   Altmann, Jörn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF DATA; BETWEENNESS CENTRALITY; COAUTHORSHIP; DEGREE CENTRALITY; RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORK THEORY; THEORETICAL MODELS; WEIGHTED DEGREE;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

RESEARCH;

EID: 79952911342     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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