Science collaboration networks in sociology and their general characteristics in Serbia

Abstract

Science collaboration networks occupy an important place in the analysis of social networks. There are several directions of concern in this kind of research: one attempts to explain the structure of science collaboration networks, the second one analyses the invisible scientific communities and the third one is dealing with the problems of different citation forms which function as a base from which many of the conclusions concerning these networks are being derived. However, the results of recent research in science collaboration networks indicate that there are a number of idiosyncratic characteristics of collaboration networks in sociology. In the first part of the paper the author analyzes the results of previous research of sociological social networks, published in scientific papers available in the following databases: JSTOR, ScienceDirect and SpringerLink. The authors then proceeds with the analysis of social networks of sociologists in Serbia and gives guidelines of the first research project dedicated to the analysis of social networks in Serbia.

Keywords

• science collaboration networks
• sociology
• Serbia