An Analysis of the Structure and Evolution of the Distance Education Research Area Community in Terms of Coauthorships

Autor/inn/en	Gomes, Rodrigo Richard; Barbosa, Marcelo Werneck
Titel	An Analysis of the Structure and Evolution of the Distance Education Research Area Community in Terms of Coauthorships
Quelle	In: International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 16 (2018) 2, S.65-79, Artikel 5 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-3100
DOI	10.4018/IJDET.2018040105
Schlagwörter	Distance Education; Collaborative Writing; Writing for Publication; Researchers; Periodicals; Journal Articles; Network Analysis; Social Networks; Online Courses; Educational Technology; Technology Uses in Education; Communities of Practice + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Researcher; Forscher; Periodical; Journal; Zeitschrift; Fachzeitschrift; Periodikum; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Netzplantechnik; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Online course; Online-Kurs; Unterrichtsmedien; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Community
Abstract	This article aims at characterizing the research community of Distance Education (DE) with respect to coauthorship, a special kind of collaboration among researchers, according to publications of 11 relevant DE journals. This article identified who the central researchers are, the topological properties of the coauthorship networks analyzed, the coauthorship patterns of each journal and the evolution of the DE community in the last 30 years. In order to achieve these goals, Social Network Analysis (SNA) was used, deriving centrality metrics, which depict the importance of researchers in the networks. This study found out that researchers who publish more papers are not necessarily the ones considered more central according to SNA. Besides, promising researchers, those linked to central researchers and are considered more likely to coauthor papers in the near future. Different coauthorship patterns among journals are described. Finally, a steep increase in the number of publications and coauthorships in the last decades was observed. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01