Xiao, Yu; Lu, Louis Y.Y.; Liu, John S.; Zhou, Zhili - In: Journal of Informetrics 8 (2014) 3, pp. 594-605
through an analysis of the main paths. We study a dataset of 1880 papers to explore the knowledge diffusion path, using … citation data to build the citation network. The main paths are then investigated and visualized via social network analysis …. This paper takes three different main path analyses, namely local, global, and key-route, to depict the knowledge diffusion …