Co-Authorship Networks in the Digital Library Research Community TeX Export

@article{liu05coauthorship, abstract = {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 (U.S.) 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).}, author = {Liu, Xiaoming and Bollen, Johan and Nelson, Michael L. and Van de Sompel, Herbert}, citeulike-article-id = {3322609}, journal = {Information Processing and Management}, keywords = {co-authorship, collaboration, digital-library, networks}, number = {6}, pages = {1462--1480}, posted-at = {2008-09-23 17:16:38}, priority = {2}, title = {Co-Authorship Networks in the Digital Library Research Community}, volume = {41}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - liu05coauthorship L3 - citeulike-article-id:3322609 N2 - 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 (U.S.) 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). IS - 6 JF - Information Processing and Management EP - 1480 TI - Co-Authorship Networks in the Digital Library Research Community VL - 41 SP - 1462 KW - co-authorship KW - collaboration KW - digital-library KW - networks AU - Liu, Xiaoming AU - Bollen, Johan AU - Nelson, Michael AU - Van de Sompel, Herbert PY - 2005/// ER -