Structures and dynamics of scientific knowledge networks: An empirical analysis based on a co-word network

Co-word networks are constructed with author-provided keywords in academic publications and their relations of co-occurrence. As special form of scientific knowledge networks, they represent the cognitive structure of scientific literature. This paper analyzes the complex structure of a co-word network based on 8,190 author-provided keywords extracted from 3,651 papers in five Chinese core journals in the field of management science. Small-world...