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ENTER 2015 Research Track Slide Number 1
The Invisible College of eTourismA Case of ENTER Conference
Tianyu Ying
Shahab Pourfakhimi
University of Otago, New [email protected]
www.otago.ac.nz/tourism
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HAVE PUBLISHED IN ENTER CONFERENCE 1994-2014AUTHORS
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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGEof each field is the group ofINTER-CONNECTED
ACTIVE&Researchers who form aSOCIAL ORGANISATIONAs the backbone of research in any academic field
Price & Beaver (1966)Crane (1969)
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KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSIONAND ITSDEVELOPMENTARE TO A LARGE DEGREE THE RESULT OF THE SOCIAL PROCESS BETWEENTHE MEMBERS OF THIS COLLEGE
Racherla & Hu (2010)Hu & Racherla (2008)
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PATTERNS & DYNAMICSOF
KNOWLEDGE CREATION &DIFFUSION
STUDY OF SUCH CONNECTIONS ENABLE US TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE
Baggio, Scott & Arcodia (2008)Racherla & Hu (2010)Hu & Racherla (2008)
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KEY ACTORSBEHIND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACADEMIC FIELD
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SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS
Baggio, Scott & Arcodia (2008)Benckendorff (2011)
Racherla & Hu (2010)Hu & Racherla (2008)
IS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR SUCH AN INVESTIGATION
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IN THE CASE OF ENTER COFERENCE
≈0.67θ ≈α≈0.66
66%of papers are produced by
9%of total authors (125)
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Continuous growthInclination of new authors to collaborate
with prolific authors
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4.8ENTER AVERAGE DEGREE CENTRALITY
2.5TOURISM SCHOLARS BY BENCKENDORFF 2010
1.03EVENT PAPERS BY BAGGIO et. al. 2008
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The Main Component (572 nodes)
Isolates(72 nodes)
Other components
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Papers 972
Authors (nodes) 1386
Mean paper per author (overall) 1.83
Mean author per paper (overall) 2.61
Number of components 251
Main component size 572
Links (collaboration relationships) 2895
Isolates (non-connected authors) 72
Mean degree centrality (collaborator per author) 4.18
Density 0.003
Mean distance 5.119
Mean betweenness (normalised) 0.051
Mean effective egonet size 1.7
Mean 2step reach 1.16
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Minimum Connectivity Maximum Connectivity
Minimum Contribution
Maximum Contribution
High ContributionHigh Connectivity(52 nodes < 4%)
High ContributionLess connectivity(17 nodes > 1%)
Lower ContributionHigh Connectivity
(9 nodes < 1%)
Lower ContributionLess Connectivity
(1308 nodes 94.5%)
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Critical and special role in academy
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• Identifying the leading researchers of the eTourism academy
• Understanding structure of collaborations in this field• Visualise the academic network of our senior
researchers• Assist young career researchers to develop their
network and position themselves
CONCLUSION
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• Expanding scope to other sources of scientific communication
• Citation, co-citation analysis is recommended
LIMITATION
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IT ONLY REFLECTS THE ACTIVITY OF RESEARCHERS IN THIS CONFERENCE, NOT THE WHOLE ACADEMIC
FIELD
IT DOES NOT MEASURE THE QUALITY OF RESEARCH, BUT ONLY THE EXTENT OF THE
CONNECTIVITY AND CONTRIBUTION OF THE SCHOLARS
CAUTION!!!
