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Temporal analysis of tourism research collaboration network

journal contribution
posted on 2017-08-01, 00:00 authored by W Fan, Gang LiGang Li, R Law
Network analysis is an effective tool for the study of collaboration relationships among researchers. Collaboration networks constructed from previous studies, and their changes over time have been studied. However, the impact of individual researchers in collaboration networks has not been investigated systematically. We introduce a new method of measuring the contribution of researchers to the connectivity of collaboration networks and evaluate the importance of researchers by considering both contribution and productivity. Betweenness centrality is found to be better than degree centrality in terms of reflecting the changes of importance of researchers. Accordingly, a method is further proposed to identify key researchers at certain periods. The performance of the identified researchers demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.

History

Journal

Journal of hospitality & tourism research

Volume

41

Pagination

643-672

Location

London, Eng.

ISSN

1096-3480

eISSN

1557-7554

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article, C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2016, The Authors

Issue

6

Publisher

SAGE Publications