The collaboration network in China´s management science

By using methods of bibliometrics and social network analysis, we find that the scientific collaboration network in China´s management science is a scale-free small world network. Based on statistical analysis of the key network properties (L, the average shortest path length; C, the clustering coefficient; the node degree distribution), we explored the relationships between L and the size of China´s management science collaboration network, between C and the network density, and between the degree distribution and the strength of node connectivity. The combination of these results shows the current status of China´s management science as an academic field. We also divided the period of study into 3 sub-periods and performed analysis on each sub-period. The temporal study shows the trend in China´s management science research. By looking into the authors with high node degrees, we also find the hot research area, the most active researchers and organizations.