The value of indirect ties in citation networks: SNA analysis with OWA operator weights

Information Sciences

Volumn 314, Issue , 2015, Pages 135-151

  Marra, Marianna ^a   Emrouznejad, Ali ^b   Ho, William ^c   Edwards, John S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggregation operator; Ordered weighted averaging (OWA); Patent citations network; Social network analysis (SNA)

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STATISTICAL METHODS;

AGGREGATION OPERATOR; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING OPERATOR; PATENT CITATION; PREFERENCE RANKING; PROVIDE GUIDANCES; RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRIES; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

EID: 84929169250     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2015.02.017     Document Type: Article

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