Title
Exploring the stability of communication network metrics in a dynamic nursing context
Abstract
•Nine network metrics exhibited stability over seven months in an Information-Sharing and an Advice Network.•Four network metrics, Hierarchy, Fragmentation, Isolate Count, and Clique Count, exhibited instability.•Slight differences were found between day and night shifts in the Information-Sharing and the Advice Networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.socnet.2019.08.003
Social Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
Network stability,Social network analysis,Patient care units
Data collection,Nursing,Clique,Social network analysis,Centrality,Betweenness centrality,Network analysis,Clustering coefficient,Metrics,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
61
0378-8733
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Barbara B. Brewer1172.94
Kathleen M. Carley22507270.10
Marge Benham-Hutchins3252.89
Judith A. Effken48110.86
Jeffrey Reminga5364.65