文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Determining Inventor Status and Its Effect on Knowledge Diffusion: A Study on Nanotechnology Literature From China, Russia, and India

作者：Liu, Xuan[1];Kaza, Siddharth[2];Zhang, Pengzhu[3];Chen, Hsinchun[4]

机构：[1]E China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Dept Management Sci & Engn, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[2]Towson Univ, Dept Comp & Informat Sci, Towson, MD 21252 USA;[3]Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Dept Management Informat Syst, Shanghai 200052, Peoples R China;[4]Univ Arizona, Dept Management Informat Syst, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

年份：2011

卷号：62

期号：6

起止页码：1166

外文期刊名：JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

收录：;EI(收录号：20112113997731);WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000291122800014)，SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000291122800014)】；

基金：This research was partially supported by U.S. National Science Foundation Grants CMMI-0533749 and CMMI-0926270, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) "Fundamental Research on E-Government Theory and Methods" Grant 70533030, and Chinese Ministry of Education Grant 10YJCZH097.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Social sciences computing - Diffusion

摘要：In an increasingly global research landscape, it is important to identify the most prolific researchers in various institutions and their influence on the diffusion of knowledge. Knowledge diffusion within institutions is influenced by not just the status of individual researchers but also the collaborative culture that determines status. There are various methods to measure individual status, but few studies have compared them or explored the possible effects of different cultures on the status measures. In this article, we examine knowledge diffusion within science and technology-oriented research organizations. Using social network analysis metrics to measure individual status in large-scale coauthorship networks, we studied an individual's impact on the recombination of knowledge to produce innovation in nanotechnology. Data from the most productive and high-impact institutions in China (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Russia (Russian Academy of Sciences), and India (Indian Institutes of Technology) were used. We found that boundary-spanning individuals influenced knowledge diffusion in all countries. However, our results also indicate that cultural and institutional differences may influence knowledge diffusion.