An integrated examination of collaboration coauthorship networks through structural cohesion, holes, hierarchy, and percolating clusters

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1639-1661

  Ghosh, Jaideep ^a   Kshitij, Avinash ^a  

^a National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies India   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-AUTHORSHIP NETWORKS; COLLABORATION NETWORK; GLOBAL NETWORKS; PERCOLATING CLUSTERS;

EID: 84903954032     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23058     Document Type: Article

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