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The Core-Periphery Problem in Communication Research: A Network Analysis of Leading Publication

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Is communication and media research a deeply international field? Are there real and extensive collaborations between various cultures represented on the highest level? In our current research, we analyzed the most recent 620 articles written by 1456 authors and published in 63 SCImago Scopus Q1-ranked journals in communication and media studies (CMS) to reveal the patterns of scientific contribution, the well-connected network of winner-countries, and the sporadic presence of loser or Matthew-countries. We used CATMA and Gephi software to analyze and visualize the distribution patterns behind scientific publications. Our results show that the network of collaboration in CMS is very sparse, most of the scientific publications are written by authors from a very few winner-countries, and the real loser of the field is obviously the CEE region with its lonely, disconnected, and marginalized representatives.

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Demeter, M. The Core-Periphery Problem in Communication Research: A Network Analysis of Leading Publication. Pub Res Q 33, 402–420 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-017-9535-2

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