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Abstract
The current study builds on extant publication productivity CCJ research by applying a social network analysis to examine the presence of an “invisible college” of scholarship in experimental CCJ scholarship. Relying on data from 298 articles and 678 unique authors published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology (JEC) from 2011 to 2020, the results suggest that publishing networks are largely decentralized, but many key networks do exist and those networks can have definitive leaders that are critical players in the network. Given the information that was derived from the present study, continued exploration into publishing networks is suggested using social network analysis techniques. Study limitations and directions for future research are discussed.
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Notes
1 One paper/publication was dropped from the initial sample due to the authors being listed as a publishing group with no individual authors listed, which prevented us from examining how these individuals are connected to others in the publishing network. A second publishing group name was removed as well; however, the paper/publication to which this group was connected remained in the original dataset as there were still names of individual authors listed. This changed the number of “authors” on that paper from 6 to 5.
2 Available at http://casos.cs.cmu.edu/projects/ora/.
3 All links were set as symmetric (non-directional), and self-loops (the diagonal of the adjacency matrix) were ignored in order to calculate betweenness and closeness. The network was re-run with self-loops included to examine degree centrality and eigenvector centrality, per recommendations from Wei, Pfeffer, Reminga, and Carley (Citation2011).