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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author VILLANUEVA-FELEZ, Africa (MOLAS-GALLART, Jordi; ESCRIBA-ESTEVE, Alejandro)
Title Measuring personal networks and their relationship with scientific production / Africa Villanueva-Felez ; Jordi Molas-Gallart ; Alejandro Escribá-Esteve
Publication year 2013
Source/Footnote In: Minerva. - 51 (2013) 4, S. 465 - 483
Inventory number 35619
Keywords Informationsgesellschaft / Wissensgesellschaft ; Forschung : allgemein
Abstract The analysis of social networks has remained a crucial and yet understudied aspect of the efforts to measure Triple Helix linkages. The Triple Helix model aims to explain, among other aspects of knowledge-based societies, ?the current research system in its social context? (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff 2000:109). This paper develops a novel approach to study the research system from the perspective of the individual, through the analysis of the relationships among researchers, and between them and other social actors. We develop a new set of techniques and show how they can be applied to the study of a specific case (a group of academics within a university department). We analyse their informal social networks and show how a relationship exists between the characteristics of an individual?s network of social links and his or her research output. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)