Evolutionary dynamics of scientific collaboration networks: Multi-levels and cross-time analysis

Scientometrics

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 687-710

  Abbasi, Alireza ^a   Hossain, Liaquat ^a   Uddin, Shahadat ^a   Rasmussen, Kim J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Co authorship analysis; Dynamic network analysis; Evolutionary collaboration networks; Multi levels and cross time analysis; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053953432     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0463-1     Document Type: Article

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