A Complex Network Perspective on the World Science System

A Complex Network Perspective on the World Science System

Cunningham, S.W.
Kwakkel, J.H.

Technology, Policy and Management

Multi Actor Systems

2011-09-15

This paper discusses capabilities for a systematic overview of world science delivered from the use of new output indicators of science and technology. The data may be usefully structured using a complex network perspective on national publication and international collaboration. This paper uses a random sample of publication data from 2009 to provide a timely update on world activities in science. A mixed predictive and descriptive approach is used in analyzing the data. A variety of methods including structural network analysis, and network regression, are used in the exploration of this sample. Insights are gained into key participants in world science, their positioning in a network of collaborative relationships, and the resultant morphology of the network which emerges from a mixture of random and geographic factors.

international collaboration
complex networks
scientific publication
national indicators
world science

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8f87082e-ac14-4ab7-b017-ec9b11f3ca24

https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSIP.2011.6064467

IEEE

978-1-4577-1390-3

Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, Atlanta, USA, 15-17 September 2011; preprint

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