An analysis of international coauthorship networks in the supply chain analytics research area
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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This work characterized the research community of supply chain analytics
(SCA) with respect to coauthorship, a special kind of collaboration. A characterization of
coauthorship in terms of researchers’ countries, institutions and individuals was elaborated,
so three different one-mode networks were studied. Besides, the SCA research community
is characterized in terms of Supply Chain Management (SCM) research streams. Coau-
thorship among researchers working on different streams is also analyzed. Metrics that
depict the importance of the network nodes were studied such as degree, betweenness and
closeness. This study found out an intense collaboration between USA and countries such
as China, India, United Kingdom and Canada. Researchers from Canada and Ireland are
better situated (central) in the network, although they have not published a considerable
amount of papers. The presence of cliques and the small-world effect were also observed in
these networks. In terms of research streams, more research on SCA located at the
Strategic Management, Technology-focused and Logistics streams was found. The most
common links between research streams are on the one side, Technology-focused with
both Strategic Management and Logistics and on the other side Strategic Management with
both Logistics and Organizational behavior. SCA researchers are rarely working with a focus on Marketing. This study contributes to the SCA literature by identifying the most
central actors in this area and by characterizing the area in terms of SCM research streams.
This study may contribute to the development of more focused research incentive pro-
grams and collaborations.
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Logística empresarial, Redes sociais
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Social network analysis, Coauthorship networks, Big data analytics, Business analytics, Supply chain analytics
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https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11192-017-2370-6.pdf