[Air-l] New publication: social networks meet citation networks on and offline

Robert M. Tynes rtynes at u.washington.edu
Wed Nov 19 12:53:56 PST 2003


Is this a plug?

-robert


On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Barry Wellman wrote:

> Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
> vol 55, #2, Jan 2004
> 
> "Does Citation Reflect Social Structure? Longitudinal Evidence From the
> 'Globenet' Interdisciplinary Research Group'
> 
> Howard D. White, Barry Wellman, and Nancy Nazer
> Published online 13 November 2003   pp. 111-126
> 
> White, Wellman, and Nazer investigate the inter-citation patterns of the
> 16 international interdisciplinary members of a research group established
> in 1993 to study human development with the hope of determining whether
> citation is based on whom those who cite know, or upon what they know,
> i.e., whether the patterns are social or intellectual in structure.  The
> members of the group are acquainted and the study of the 240 possible
> pairs indicates that half collaborate and read each other's work, and 74%
> consider themselves friends or colleagues. Inter-citation patterns were
> studied prior to 1989, from 1989 to 1992, 1993 to 1996, and 1997 to 2000.
> Co-citation is shown to predict inter- citation; one cites those with whom
> one is co-cited. As members became better acquainted, citation of one
> another increased. Inter-citation was not randomly distributed with a core
> group of 12 pairs predominating. Friends cited friends more than
> acquaintances, and inter-citers communicated more than non-inter- citers.
> However, intellectual affinity, as shown by co-citation, rather than
> social ties, leads to inter-citation.
> 
>  _____________________________________________________________________
> 
>   Barry Wellman         Professor of Sociology        NetLab Director
>   wellman at chass.utoronto.ca  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman
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