Presentation done by Tianyu Ying and Shahab Pourfakhimi, during "Tourism & Co-creation" workshop, of the ENTER2015 eTourism conference.

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The Invisible College of eTourism
A Case of ENTER Conference
Tianyu Ying
Shahab Pourfakhimi
University of Otago, New Zealand
Tianyu.ying@otago.ac.nz
Shahab.pourfakhimi@otago.ac.nz
www.otago.ac.nz/tourism

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1386
HAVE PUBLISHED IN ENTER CONFERENCE 1994-2014
AUTHORS

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WHO ARE THE LEADING ONES?

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THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE
of each field is the group of
INTER-CONNECTED
ACTIVE&
Researchers who form a
SOCIAL ORGANISATIONAs the backbone of research in any academic field
Price & Beaver (1966)
Crane (1969)

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KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION
AND ITS
DEVELOPMENT
ARE TO A LARGE DEGREE THE RESULT OF
THE SOCIAL PROCESS BETWEEN
THE MEMBERS OF THIS COLLEGE
Racherla & Hu (2010)
Hu & Racherla (2008)

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PATTERNS & DYNAMICS
OF
KNOWLEDGE CREATION &
DIFFUSION
STUDY OF SUCH CONNECTIONS ENABLE US
TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE
Baggio, Scott & Arcodia (2008)
Racherla & Hu (2010)
Hu & Racherla (2008)

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KEY ACTORSBEHIND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACADEMIC FIELD

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SOCIAL NETWORK
ANALYSIS
Baggio, Scott & Arcodia (2008)
Benckendorff (2011)
Racherla & Hu (2010)
Hu & Racherla (2008)
IS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR SUCH AN INVESTIGATION

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21
YEARS972
PAPERS1386
AUTHORS

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PRODUCTIVITY
CONNECTIVITY

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IN THE CASE OF ENTER COFERENCE
≈0.67θ ≈α≈0.66
66%of papers are produced by
9%
of total authors (125)

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Continuous growth
Inclination of new authors to collaborate
with prolific authors

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4.8ENTER AVERAGE DEGREE CENTRALITY
2.5TOURISM SCHOLARS BY BENCKENDORFF 2010
1.03EVENT PAPERS BY BAGGIO et. al. 2008

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The Main Component
(572 nodes)
Isolates
(72 nodes)
Other
components

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Papers 972
Authors (nodes) 1386
Mean paper per author (overall) 1.83
Mean author per paper (overall) 2.61
Number of components 251
Main component size 572
Links (collaboration relationships) 2895
Isolates (non-connected authors) 72
Mean degree centrality (collaborator per author) 4.18
Density 0.003
Mean distance 5.119
Mean betweenness (normalised) 0.051
Mean effective egonet size 1.7
Mean 2step reach 1.16

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Minimum Connectivity Maximum Connectivity
Minimum Contribution
Maximum Contribution
High Contribution
High Connectivity
(52 nodes < 4%)
High Contribution
Less connectivity
(17 nodes > 1%)
Lower Contribution
High Connectivity
(9 nodes < 1%)
Lower Contribution
Less Connectivity
(1308 nodes 94.5%)

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Buhalis, D.
Law, R.
Fesenmaier, D.
Höpken, W.
Werthner, H.
Fuchs, M.
Ricci, F.
Gretzel, U.
Murphy, J.
Alzua-Sorzabal, A.
Lianza, M.
Zanker, M.
Schegg, R.
Cantoni, L.
Frew, A.

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Critical and special role in academy

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• Identifying the leading researchers of the eTourism
academy
• Understanding structure of collaborations in this field
• Visualise the academic network of our senior
researchers
• Assist young career researchers to develop their
network and position themselves
CONCLUSION

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• Expanding scope to other sources of scientific
communication
• Citation, co-citation analysis is recommended
LIMITATION

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IT ONLY REFLECTS THE ACTIVITY OF RESEARCHERS IN
THIS CONFERENCE, NOT THE WHOLE ACADEMIC
FIELD
IT DOES NOT MEASURE THE QUALITY OF
RESEARCH, BUT ONLY THE EXTENT OF THE
CONNECTIVITY AND CONTRIBUTION OF THE
SCHOLARS
CAUTION!!!

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Thank You