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. 2020 Nov;264:113330. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113330

Table 3.

Network Cluster characteristics.

Cluster 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Total
(n) 57 31 76 42 7 15 8 14 250
Number Equivalent Shannon Index 9.68 4.53 9.68 13.07 3.6 8.33 4.01 3.42 14.15
% US 7% 19% 96% 0% 86% 26% 0% 93% 43%
% UK 40% 19% 1% 52% 0% 0% 88% 0% 24%
% Any Medical Degree 18% 32% 20% 12% 29% 40% 13% 7% 20%
Median year of authors' first included publication 1999 2002 2004 2005 2005 2006 2008.5 2011.5 2004
Earliest first included publication 1985 1997 1993 1983 2002 1999 2001 2003 1983
Subject Category: PhD/Highest Degree


(% of cluster)
(% network)
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health 19% 45% 36% 19% 43% 20% 0% 64% 30.00%
Medicine, general & internal 4% 6% 14% 5% 29% 13% 13% 8.80%
Medicine, research & experimental 14% 13% 1.20%
Nursing 5% 7% 2.00%
Dentistry, oral surgery & medicine 3% 1% 0.80%
Nutrition & dietetics 1% 0.40%
Psychology 11% 5% 5% 7% 5.20%
Psychology, clinical 8% 2% 2.80%
Behavioral sciences 3% 0.80%
Education & educational research 2% 0.40%
Statistics & probability 7% 1% 14% 7% 7% 3.20%
Biochemistry & molecular biology 4% 7% 1.20%
Ecology 2% 13% 0.80%
Biology 7% 0.40%
Genetics & heredity 7% 0.40%
Health policy & services 3% 13% 1.60%
Health care sciences & services 2% 5% 1.20%
Planning & development 2% 0.40%
Family studies 7% 0.40%
Demography 4% 3% 2% 1.60%
Urban studies 2% 2% 0.80%
Geography 2% 1% 5% 50% 3.20%
Communication 1% 0.40%
Business 1% 0.40%
Economics 2% 29% 3% 4.80%
Social sciences, biomedical 4% 1% 7% 13% 2.80%
Social sciences, interdisciplinary 2% 2% 7% 1.20%
Social work 2% 1% 0.80%
Sociology 26% 6% 9% 17% 13% 12.40%
Political science 4% 3% 3% 14% 4.40%
Anthropology 13% 0.80%
Law 1% 0.40%
History 3% 2% 0.80%
Literature 2% 0.40%
Philosophy 2% 0.40%
Information science & library science 2% 0.40%
Unknown
7%







2.00%
Total 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100.00%