Abstract

The current study builds on extant publication productivity CCJ research by applying a social network analysis to examine the presence of an “invisible college” of scholarship in experimental CCJ scholarship. Relying on data from 298 articles and 678 unique authors published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology (JEC) from 2011 to 2020, the results suggest that publishing networks are largely decentralized, but many key networks do exist and those networks can have definitive leaders that are critical players in the network. Given the information that was derived from the present study, continued exploration into publishing networks is suggested using social network analysis techniques. Study limitations and directions for future research are discussed.

摘要

当前的研究建立在现有的出版生产力 CCJ 研究的基础上，通过应用社交网络分析来检查实验性 CCJ 奖学金中是否存在“隐形学院”奖学金。根据 2011 年至 2020 年发表在《实验犯罪学杂志》 (JEC)上的 298 篇文章和 678 位独特作者的数据，结果表明出版网络在很大程度上是分散的，但确实存在许多关键网络，并且这些网络可以有明确的领导者网络中的关键参与者。鉴于从本研究中获得的信息，建议使用社交网络分析技术继续探索出版网络。讨论了研究的局限性和未来研究的方向。