Similarity network fusion for scholarly journals

Baccini, Federica; Barabesi, Lucio; Baccini, Alberto; Khelfaoui, Mahdi; Gingras, Yves

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2021.101226

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“…Research on EBI has thus primarily focused on examining this phenomenon in the social sciences, finding significant interlocks in disciplines such as economics [8], finance [21], knowledge management [10], or communication [7]. Recent studies [36,37] have also compared networks of editors and authors, and co-citations of different disciplines, namely, economics, and information and library sciences, as to show how they are associated. These studies demonstrate that co-citation networks, interlocked authors, and especially editors, are associated.…”

Section: Editorial Board Interlocking and Why It Mattersmentioning

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Editorial board interlocking across the social sciences: Modelling the geographic, gender, and institutional representation within and between six academic fields

Goyanes

de‐Marcos²,

Demeter³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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Editorial boards play a key role in the production, dissemination, and promotion of scientific knowledge. The cross-presence of scholars in different journals, known as editorial board interlocking, maps the connections between such bodies of governance. Former research on this topic is typically restricted to individual disciplines and has failed to consider the relevance of potential interlocking between related, but different academic fields. Further, although existing studies note a significant lack of diversity in editorial board representation, they mainly focus on a single dimension, such as gender or geography. This study addressed these knowledge gaps by offering a complex cross-disciplinary approach to the geographical, gender, and institutional compositions of editorial boards, with a specific emphasis on within- and between-fields editorial board interlocking. We used graph and social network analysis to examine editorial board connections between 281 top journals (13,084 members and 17,092 connections) of six disciplines: communication, psychology, political science, sociology, economics, and management. We found substantial differences in terms of field connections, ranging from sociology with 42% interlocking with other fields, to management with only 11%. Psychology is significantly less connected to the other five disciplines. The results also show a clear overrepresentation of American institutions and native English-speaking countries in all fields, with Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and New York University forming a well-connected central cluster. Although female scholars are underrepresented, there are no significant differences in terms of positioning in the network. Female scholars are even employed in more central positions than male scholars in psychology, sociology, and management. Our findings extend the literature on editorial board diversity by evidencing a significant imbalance in their gender, geographical, institutional representation, and interlocking editorship both within and between fields.

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Section: Editorial Board Interlocking and Why It Mattersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Editorial board interlocking across the social sciences: Modelling the geographic, gender, and institutional representation within and between six academic fields

Goyanes

de‐Marcos²,

Demeter³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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“…The multiplex network is used to characterize the interactions of different elements. Some studies integrated the information from different networks into a new network and investigated the correlation between networks (Bianconi, 2018; Baccini et al, 2022). Scholars also applied these methods to simulate the diffusion of information in different contexts and explore what kinds of nodes affect the process of difussion most (Li et al, 2019).…”

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Measuring Author Similarity by Topic Networks

Hsiao

Chen

2022

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Researchers have applied multiple methods, like co‐authorship and author co‐citation, to measure the relationships between authors and author similarity. These methods play a critical role in various applications of informetrics. A more delicate approach to gauging author similarity improves the related applications. By applying the method developed by the multiplex network, this study investigated how to identify author similarity by the mesoscale structures of author topic networks, which represent an author's research topic by organizing the interactions of the topic terms of their publications. Compared with the co‐authorship relationship and topic‐term similarity results, identifying author similarity by the mesoscale structure of author topic networks provides a better result reflecting how close authors’ research topics are.

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“…Debido a que la investigación es un proceso crucial dentro de la estructura organizacional de cualquier centro de enseñanza (Campos Sánchez et al, 2022;Gonzales Tito et al, 2023;López Valdés et al, 2022;Vitón-Castillo et al, 2022), es necesario profundizar en el estudio de estas comunidades no oficiales de investigadores, cuya interacción y colaboración desempeñan un papel fundamental en la conformación de campos de estudio (Araque Geney, 2023;Bauder, 2020;Kim et al, 2021;Sedita et al, 2020). Además, la configuración de redes que operan más allá de los límites establecidos formalmente por la tradición académica, favorece la generación de nuevas ideas y la promoción de innovaciones significativas en los planos profesional e institucional, pero también personal y comunitario (Baccini et al, 2022;González Ávila et al, 2023;Holloway et al, 2021;Hou & Yang, 2020;Ji et al, 2020).…”

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Hidden knowledge networks: Influence of invisible colleges on scientific research

Cano

2023

AWARI

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This review article explores the concept of the invisible college and its fundamental role in the formation and evolution of scientific research. Through an exhaustive analysis of the most relevant literature identified, we examined how these informal networks of scientists and academics facilitate the exchange of information, knowledge, and resources and assess their significant influence on research trends and the dissemination of scientific knowledge. A study was conducted with a qualitative and critical approach, operationalized through a scoping review design. The mechanisms through which these networks foster interdisciplinary collaboration and promote innovations, the challenges and opportunities for scientific policy and research management were analyzed, and strategies were suggested to recognize and enhance their value in the global scientific ecosystem. Finally, future directions are proposed to investigate the impact of these hidden networks on science to improve the understanding of their role in advancing knowledge.

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Similarity network fusion for scholarly journals

Cited by 11 publications

References 49 publications

Editorial board interlocking across the social sciences: Modelling the geographic, gender, and institutional representation within and between six academic fields

Editorial board interlocking across the social sciences: Modelling the geographic, gender, and institutional representation within and between six academic fields

Measuring Author Similarity by Topic Networks

Hidden knowledge networks: Influence of invisible colleges on scientific research

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