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Variables | Descriptions | IRR |
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Research topics |
Categories of network analysis | Categorization of network research according to the type of node and the level of analysis | 0.894 |
Types of network relations | Communication network, information and knowledge sharing network, collaboration network, etc. | 0.972 |
Research designs |
Boundary specification methods | Exogenously defined, relationally defined, and methodologically defined | 0.864 |
Data collection methods | Survey and interview, databases, mixed, and others | 0.915 |
Research instruments |
Degree centrality | The number of direct links with others [37] | 0.853 |
Betweenness centrality | The extent to which a node falls on the geodesic paths between others [38] | 0.830 |
Closeness centrality | The ease of connection from a node to all other nodes [38] | 0.933 |
Eigenvector centrality | The number of links weighted by the centrality of the connectors [39] | 0.827 |
Structure hole | The lack of a direct relation between two nonredundant cliques [40] | 0.824 |
Structural equivalence | The extent to which two nodes share the same pattern of relations [41] | 1.000 |
Network density | The extent of the connectivity of a network [42] | 0.887 |
Network cohesion | The extension of relational cohesion in the network level [42] | 0.827 |
Power-law degree distribution | The so-called “scale-free” property indicates few nodes having many links and many nodes having few links [43] | 0.918 |
Quantitative analysis methods | Descriptive analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis, simulation analysis, and others | 0.926 |
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