CASE STUDY â CENTRALITY MEASURE ANALYSIS ON CO-AUTHORSHIP NETWORK

Abstract

Study of social networks reveal communication patterns which are of interest to researchers. Co-authorship network is one type of a social network. These networks represent the publication work carried out by researchers. Co-authorship networks analysis is useful in understanding the structure of scientific collaborations and status of individual authors. Centrality measure calculation is one of the many tasks of social network analysis. Focus of this paper work is on centrality measure analysis carried out on the co-authorship network using Gephi, a social network analysis tool.