2023 VOLUME 3 ISSUE 1
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Research on potential influential scholars in the field of information science and their cooperative characteristics
AUTHOR
Jianhua Hou, Xiucai Yang, Haiyue Yao, Yang Zhang
ABSTRACT
With the continuous development of social media, the ways and means of academic influence
evaluation of scholars are increasing rapidly. The emergence of the Citation Network Structural
Variation model method breaks the traditional way of identifying the influence of scholars
through scientometrics index, author cooperation or node indicators in author citation network
structure. Based on this method, CiteSpace software tool is used to detect scholars with potential
influence in the field of Information Science and reveal the cooperative characteristics of
scholars with potential influence. The study found that the most potentially influential
five-pointed star scholars in the field of Information Science mainly include Leydesdorff L,
Bornmann L, Thelwall M, Bar-llan J, Waltman L, Huang MH, Rousseau R and others. Pentagram
scholars are usually located at the core of different cooperative groups in the author's
cooperative network. Other influential non-pentagram scholars and pentagram scholars maintain
a high frequency of cooperation and have a high similarity in research direction.
KEYWORDS
Scholars' potential influence; Citation Network Structural Variation model; Author collaboration; CiteSpace