The Impact of International Research Collaboration Network Evolution on Chinese Business School Research Quality

Table 5

Changes of network indicators in three phases.

Indicators	2000–2008	2009–2013	2014–2018
Number of nodes	145	242	349
Number of edges	549	1146	2226
Density	0.053	0.039	0.037
Average degree	7.572	9.471	12.756
Average path length	2.368	2.529	2.523
Diameter	5	5	6
Average clustering coefficient	0.666	0.641	0.619