Collaboration network puzzle

[Gohar F. Khan]

Dear Colleagues:

The field is Information Technology Management.

And thank you for the interesting insights. I will further dig down into
the data to check if it is due to name ambiguities (as Saeed and Thomas
suggested) or network and field related dynamics (as suggested by Loet and
David).  Or perhaps both.

Regards,

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:27 PM, David Wojick <dwojick at craigellachie.us>
wrote:

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> Dear Gohar,
>
> Perhaps (1) there are several distinct subfields, which do not
> collaborate, but which are often found in the same department or
> institution. Either that or (2) there are several distinct schools of
> thought, pursuing different hypotheses, but again often found in the same
> department. Option (2) can be a characteristic of an emerging field that
> has yet to settle on a paradigm.
>
> David
>
> On May 22, 2015, at 2:57 AM, "Gohar F. Khan" <gohar.feroz at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
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> Dear Colleagues:
>
> Please help me solve the following puzzle.
>
> Using the Web of Science publication data, I have constructed two
> networks, 1) author level collaboration network, and 2) institutional level
> collaboration networks. The publications are in a particular research
> field.
>
> The problem is that the author network is composed of several small
> disconnected clusters with largest component consisting of only 43 nodes or
> authors. However, the institutional level collaboration network is well
> connected with 326 institutions in a single component.
>
> I just wonder what could explain these differences? Normally, when I
> construct such networks, the institutional network is sparse as compared to
> the authors network, as all the publications (or nodes) from a particular
> institute are merged into a single node when creating an institutional
> level collaboration network. But, here it is the opposite.
>
> What could cause this to happen? Any ideas?
>
>
> Regards,
>
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> Gohar Feroz Khan, PhD
> Assistant Professor
> Korea University of Technology & Education (KoreaTECH)
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