The social networks of collaborative process

The social networks of collaborative process

Liaquat Hossain ^, , Daniel Fazio

Project Management Graduate Programme, Room 335 PNR, J05, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, The University of Sydney NSW 2006, Australia

Available online 30 October 2009.

Abstract

We present a study exploring the connection between social networks and collaborative process. We focus on exploring academics' network position and its effect on their collaborative networks. In this paper, we discuss two types of networks of collaboration—(i) citation; and, (ii) co authorship. We explore the effects of social networks on these two types of collaborative process. By defining network position in this way, we develop a social network that uses the academics as nodes within the network instead of each published paper. We obtained the collaboration data through archival records (i.e. Web of Science) and examined the interactions among different actors from the archival records for determining the existence and strength of relations between actors.

Keywords: Social networks; Collaborative process; Co-authorship; Citation