A social network analysis of teaching and research collaboration in a teachers' virtual learning community

Abstract Background Analyzing the previous research literature in the field of clinical teaching has potential to show the trend and future direction of this field. This study aimed to visualize the co-authorship networks and scientific map of research outputs of clinical teaching and medical education by Social Network Analysis (SNA). Methods We Identified 1229 publications on clinical teaching through a systematic search strategy in the Scopus (Elsevier), Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) and Medline (NCBI/NLM) through PubMed from the year 1980 to 2018.The Ravar PreMap, Netdraw, UCINet and VOSviewer software were used for data visualization and analysis. Results Based on the findings of study the network of clinical teaching was weak in term of cohesion and the density in the co-authorship networks of authors (clustering coefficient (CC): 0.749, density: 0.0238) and collaboration of countries (CC: 0.655, density: 0.176). In regard to centrality measures; the most influential authors in the co-authorship network was Rosenbaum ME, from the USA (0.048). More, the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands have central role in collaboration countries network and has the vertex co-authorship with other that participated in publishing articles in clinical teaching. Analysis of background and affiliation of authors showed that co-authorship between clinical researchers in medicine filed is weak. Nineteen subject clusters were identified in the clinical teaching research network, seven of which were related to the expected competencies of clinical teaching and three related to clinical teaching skills. Conclusions In order to improve the cohesion of the authorship network of clinical teaching, it is essential to improve research collaboration and co-authorship between new researchers and those who have better closeness or geodisk path with others, especially those with the clinical background. To reach to a dense and powerful topology in the knowledge network of this field encouraging policies to be made for international and national collaboration between clinicians and clinical teaching specialists. In addition, humanitarian and clinical reasoning need to be considered in clinical teaching as of new direction in the field from thematic aspects.

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Analysis of the Connection and Structural Characteristics of the Maeul Learning Community through Social Network Analysis: Focusing on the Case of Wolsan–dong Maeul Learning Community

Journal of Lifelong Learning Society ◽

10.26857/jlls.2021.8.17.3.125 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 125-156

Author(s):

Hyejeong Han

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Social Network Analysis ◽

Network Analysis ◽

Learning Community ◽

Structural Characteristics

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On the Correlation between Research Performance and Social Network Analysis Measures Applied to Research Collaboration Networks

2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ◽

10.1109/hicss.2011.325 ◽

2011 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

A Abbasi ◽

Jo Altmann

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Social Network Analysis ◽

Network Analysis ◽

Research Collaboration ◽

Research Performance ◽

Collaboration Networks

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Social network analysis and data visualization of MIS international collaboration in Taiwan

Library Hi Tech ◽

10.1108/lht-08-2020-0186 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Yung-Ting Chuang ◽

Yi-Hsi Chen

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Social Network Analysis ◽

Network Analysis ◽

International Collaboration ◽

Research Productivity ◽

Research Collaboration ◽

Clustering Algorithms ◽

The United States ◽

Content Type ◽

Collaboration Patterns

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to apply social network analysis (SNA) to study faculty research productivity, to identify key leaders, to study publication keywords and research areas and to visualize international collaboration patterns and analyze collaboration research fields from all Management Information System (MIS) departments in Taiwan from 1982 to 2015.Design/methodology/approachThe authors first retrieved results encompassing about 1,766 MIS professors and their publication records between 1982 and 2015 from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST) website. Next, the authors merged these publication records with the records obtained from the Web of Science, Google Scholar, IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect, Airiti Library and Springer Link databases. The authors further applied six network centrality equations, leadership index, exponential weighted moving average (EWMA), contribution value and k-means clustering algorithms to analyze the collaboration patterns, research productivity and publication patterns. Finally, the authors applied D3.js to visualize the faculty members' international collaborations from all MIS departments in Taiwan.FindingsThe authors have first identified important scholars or leaders in the network. The authors also see that most MIS scholars in Taiwan tend to publish their papers in the journals such as Decision Support Systems and Information and Management. The authors have further figured out the significant scholars who have actively collaborated with academics in other countries. Furthermore, the authors have recognized the universities that have frequent collaboration with other international universities. The United States, China, Canada and the United Kingdom are the countries that have the highest numbers of collaborations with Taiwanese academics. Lastly, the keywords model, system and algorithm were the most common terms used in recent years.Originality/valueThis study applied SNA to visualize international research collaboration patterns and has revealed some salient characteristics of international cooperation trends and patterns, leadership networks and influences and research productivity for faculty in Information Management departments in Taiwan from 1982 to 2015. In addition, the authors have discovered the most common keywords used in recent years.

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Research Activities and Networks in CAIS Conferences for the Period of 1993- 2015: Social Network Analysis

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI ◽

10.29173/cais967 ◽

1969 ◽

Author(s):

Kwan Yi ◽

Tao Jin ◽

Ping Li

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Social Network Analysis ◽

Network Analysis ◽

Collaborative Research ◽

Information Science ◽

Research Collaboration ◽

Collaboration Network ◽

Research Activities ◽

Canadian Association ◽

Collaborative Activities

Since 1973 the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS/ACSI) has consecutively held 43 annual conferences. The purpose of this study is to better understand the research and collaborative activities in the community of CAIS conferences, based on a social network analysis (SNA) approach. A total of 827 papers from 778 authors have been presented in CAIS for the period of 1993 to 2015, in association with 209 different organizations and 25 countries. A component analysis that has been applied to the collaboration network has discovered research collaboration patterns. This study contributes to discovering collaborative research activities and formation through the CAIS conference and to the literature of the scientific collaboration in the LIS field. Depuis 1973, l'Association canadienne de sciences de l'information (ACSI/CAIS) a tenu 43 congrès annuels consécutifs. Le but de cette étude est de mieux comprendre les activités de recherche et de collaboration dans la communauté de l’ACSI, à l’aide d’une approche d’analyse des réseaux sociaux (ARS). Un total de 827 articles de 778 auteurs ont été présentés à l’ACSI dans la période 1993-2015, en association avec 209 organisations différentes et 25 pays. L’analyse des composantes du réseau de collaboration met en lumière l’existence de patrons de collaboration de recherche au sein de la communauté. Cette étude contribue à l’étude des activités de collaboration au sein des congrès de l’ACSI ainsi qu’à la littérature sur la collaboration scientifique dans le domaine BSI.

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