“…Directions can denote the direction of communication, institutional exchange, or knowledge sharing (Grba & Mestrovic, 2018). Widely applied in the selected papers (Maia & Caregnato, 2008;Lei & Xin, 2011;Kumar & Jan, 2014;Andrade, Guimarães & Galvão, 2016;Kang & Munoz, 2016;Hina, Dominic & Ratnam, 2016;Haddad, Mena-Chalco & Sidone, 2017;Grba & Mestrovic, 2018;Hou et al, 2020;Zhao et al, 2021), SNA works on these aspects. After all, turning research data into useful information and useful information into knowledge is a critical factor for success (Lima & Bastos, 2019).…”