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

Table 8

The top ten institutions’ closeness centrality in three stages.

Rank	2000–2008		2009–2013		2014–2018
	Institution name		Institution name		Institution name
1	HKUST(C)	0.638	HKUST(C)	0.582	CityU(C)	0.549
2	CUHK(C)	0.565	CityU(C)	0.56	HKUST(C)	0.529
3	CityU(C)	0.52	CUHK(C)	0.551	PolyU(C)	0.515
4	HKU(C)	0.507	HKU(C)	0.51	CUHK(C)	0.508
5	PolyU(C)	0.499	PolyU(C)	0.504	SJTU(C)	0.507
6	NYU(A)	0.489	NUS(S)	0.485	Peking Univ(C)	0.5
7	UTA(A)	0.489	UW(A)	0.48	HKU(C)	0.499
8	NUS(S)	0.484	LU(C)	0.476	NUS(S)	0.497
9	Columbia Univ(A)	0.477	SJTU(C)	0.473	Fudan Univ(C)	0.495
10	UPenn(A)	0.474	NU(A)	0.47	UW(A)	0.495

Note. (C), Chinese university; (A), American university; (S), Singaporean university; (E), British university.