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Co-authorship among the Fellows of the International Communication Association

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  • George A. Barnett

    (University of California, Davis)

  • Han Woo Park

    (YeungNam University)

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This study employs social network analysis to describe the structure of collaboration among Fellows of the International Communication Association (ICA), an elite group of social scientists, using co-authorship data gathered from Google Scholar. Network analysis revealed that fellows were loosely connected, consistent with past research on elite scholars. Although the association is “international,” over 80% of its members were educated and over 75% were most recently employed in the United States. However, North America did not significantly predict network centrality. No differences in network centrality were observed based on the status of being a former ICA President. Males tended to be slightly more central than females. Unlike for the ICA membership as a whole, Fellows were not differentiated into separate research communities. Furthermore, Fellows have conducted little international collaboration. These results are discussed in terms of the prior literature and its shortcomings.

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  • George A. Barnett & Han Woo Park, 2023. "Co-authorship among the Fellows of the International Communication Association," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 128(6), pages 3401-3418, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:128:y:2023:i:6:d:10.1007_s11192-023-04705-6
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-023-04705-6
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