The use of different data sources in the analysis of co-authorship networks and scientific performance

Social Networks

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 370-381

  De Stefano, Domenico ^a   Fuccella, Vittorio ^b   Vitale, Maria Prosperina ^b   Zaccarin, Susanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bibliometric databases; Co authorship data; GEV model; H Index; Network topology; Scientific performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880611440     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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