Clique Analysis and Visualization of Co-author Network in the Field of Philosophy of Science and Technology in China

The academic communication and cooperative becomes more and more important.The researchers gradually form lots of cliques with different scale.Based on the papers's bibliographic information in Journal of Dialectics of Nature and of Studies in Dialectics of Nature from 2001 to 2010, using the social network analysis method, this study is to find researchers cliques existing in the research field of philosophy of science and technology based on co-authored papers.According to the chosen data, the researchers' cliques and its changes are visualized with UCINET.The results show that the cooperative relations are becoming closer in the research field of philosophy of science and technology but still stay in a low level;the co-operative research focuses on the cooperation between supervisors and their students;the members of a research team turn estranged and small groups appears as research team.