creators_name: Krichel, Thomas
creators_name: Bakkalbasi, Nisa
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2006-03-30
lastmod: 2008-11-19 09:11:35
metadata_visibility: show
title: A social network analysis of research collaboration in the
economics community
ispublished: inpress
subjects: BG
full_text_status: public
keywords: collaboration, academic economics, ranking
abstract: RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) offers the RePEc Author Service (RAS). It allows registrants to claim
authorship of the research papers that are described in RePEc archives. The data from this service forms a highquality authorship database. We use this data to examine, as a practical example, how different network
constructions affect the ranking of economists through authorship centrality. We use Spearman's rho test for evaluating the correlation between author centrality measures. 
date: 2006
date_type: published
refereed: TRUE
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citation: Krichel, Thomas and Bakkalbasi, Nisa A social network analysis of research collaboration in the economics community., 2006 . In The International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Seventh COLLNET Meeting, Nancy (France), 10-12 May 2006. (In Press) [cited var currentTime = new Date();var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1;var day = currentTime.getDate();var year = currentTime.getFullYear();document.write(month + "/" + day + "/" + year)]. Available from WWW: http://eprints.rclis.org/5993/. [Conference Paper]
document_url: http://eprints.rclis.org/5993/1/Nancy.pdf