Research Network Collaboration in Economics: A Social Network Analysis for Izmir

Production and transmission of knowledge are especially important in intellectual activities like scientific researches. In this context, the main purpose of this study is to analyse the research network collaboration in economics community in Izmir. To the best of our knowledge, there is no study investigating this topic in the literature for Izmir. To fill this gap, firstly, covering the period of 2012:Q1 – 2017:Q3, a sociometric choices matrix is constructed, for the research collaboration network of economics community in Izmir. Moreover a social network graph is illustrated in order to analyze social and individual network densities. Results basically show that Izmir economics community exhibits local network properties based on geographical and cognitive distances