知识管理领域学者间合著网络分析

Analysis on Co-authorship Network of Scholars in Knowledge Management

本文利用社会网络分析方法对知识管理领域学者间的合著网络进行分析,研究该领域内的合作团体、最具影响力的学者,以及学者间的合作模式。本文收集了2000～2010年间发表在6本顶级知识管理期刊中的1831篇文献,并进行分析。首先,通过研究合著网络的度分布,发现存在少数有着大量合作者的学者,和大量仅有少数合作者的学者。其次,本文识别出3类核心学者:基于度中心性20位合作者最多的学者,基于接近中心性的20位地位最核心的学者和20位基于中介中心性的20位有着"桥梁"作用的学者。最后,本文抽取并分析了两个最大的子合著网络-57节点网络和39节点网络,发现Bontis,N.和Guthrie,J.是知识管理领域非常有影响力的两位学者。

Who is the best connected researcher in the knowledge management area~ This study uses so- cial network analysis to address this question. Specifically, 1831 papers published in six top knowledge management research journals from 2000 to 2010 which can be available to access in Proquest database are analyzed. Firstly, by analyzing the degree distribution of the network, we find there exist a few researchers who have quite a large cooperation network, and in contrast a large sum of common researchers who have just a few cooperators. Next, we respectively identify three kinds of 20 authors who have the most connec- tions with others according to degree centrality, who are in the core positions according to closeness central- ity and who play the ＂bridge roles in the network according to betweenness centrality separately. Finally, two biggest connected sub-graphs, the 57-Actors Graph and the 39-Actors Graph are extracted and discussed respectively, where exist two influential researchers, namely Bontis, N. and Guthrie, J..