Co-authorship networks in the digital library research community

By Xiaoming Liu, Johan Bollen, Michael L. Nelson, Herbert Van de Sompel. Information Processing & Management, 2005

891 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The field of digital libraries (DLs) coalesced in 1994: the first digital library conferences were held that year, awareness of the World Wide Web was accelerating, and the National Science Foundation awarded $24 Million (US) for the Digital Library Initiative (DLI). In this paper we examine the state of the DL domain after a decade of activity by applying social network analysis to the co-authorship network of the past ACM, IEEE, and joint ACM/IEEE digital library conferences. We base our analysis on a common binary undirectional network model to represent the co-authorship network, and from it we extract several established network measures. We also introduce a weighted directional network model to represent the co-authorship network, for which we define AuthorRank as an indicator of the impact of an individual author in the network. The results are validated against conference program committee members in the same period. The results show clear advantages of PageRank and AuthorRank over degree, closeness and betweenness centrality metrics. We also investigate the amount and nature of international participation in Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL).

Subfields: Communication, Computer Networks and Communications, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/2061d64ec3de29b61235fd4c4bb3a74845c94bf2

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Computer Networks and Communications

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Citations in the corpus

Journal status (2006, background): “The resulting rankings are included in the following section for informational purposes.”
Study on centrality measures in social networks: a survey (2018, background): “This measure was proposed by Liu et al. (2015) to identify influential spreaders.”
Interpreting informational cues: An explorative study on information use among prospective homebuyers (2009, neutral): “measures (Liu et al., 2005; Yin, Kretschmer, Hanneman, & Liu, 2006).”
PageRank beyond the Web (2014, background): “PageRank on this network gives a practical ranking of the most important authors (Liu et al., 2005).”
Expertise networks in online communities: structure and algorithms (2007, neutral): “Liu et al. [ 20 ] used it to evaluate the impact of an individual author in a co-authorship network.”
Understanding the Evolution of Industrial Symbiosis Research (2014, background): “The early publications mentioning IS can be traced back to the 1990s. These were mostly inspired by eco-industrial park (EIP) projects, especially the one in Kalundborg. According to the Eco-efficiency Task Force Report by the U.S. President’s Council (1997) on Sustainable Development, an EIP is def”