Examination expertise sharing in academic social networks using graphs: The case of researchgate

Contemporary Engineering Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 1-4, 2015, Pages 137-151

  Alheyasat, Omar ^a  

^a AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Graph centrality; Question answer platform; Researchgate (RG); Social network analysis (SNA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924707484     PISSN: 13136569     EISSN: 13147641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12988/ces.2015.515     Document Type: Article

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