SCHOLARLY NETWORKS
Keywords:
scholarly networks, invisible colleges, strength of ties, virtual organizations, citationAbstract
Although it was long assumed that in academic circles there were no forms of developed social organization, during the mid-twentieth century it was discovered that an extensive and influential network of informal communication and social connections existed among scholars within the so-called invisible colleges. Today, scholarly networks are highly developed social networks, considered even to be the harbingers of new forms of organizations: network organizations and virtual organizations. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of scholarly networks, focusing on their characteristics, social ties and their implications, as well as the impacts of modern means of communication, primarily the internet, on the nature of communication in scholarly networks and on their development.
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