Analyzing the structure of the EGOV conference community

  • Authors:
  • Nuša Erman;Ljupčo Todorovski

  • Affiliations:
  • Univeristy of Ljubljana, Faculty of Administration, Ljubljana, Slovenia;Univeristy of Ljubljana, Faculty of Administration, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Venue:
  • EGOV'10 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic government
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The paper applies social network analysis techniques to the task of analysis the dynamics and structure of the e-government research community. From the bibliographic data about papers published in the proceedings of this conference (International Conference on e-Government), we build a coauthorship network representing collaboration patterns among community members in the period from 2005 to 2009. The co-authorship network analysis helps us identify the most productive and central authors in EGR community, as well as delineate the community structures through finding its sub-groups and core parts. In this way, several sub-communities are revealed in sense of the thematic topics, affiliations, and geographical origins of authors.