TABLE 4.
List of authors with high frequency of co-citation.
| Author | No. of times co-cited | Half-life period* | Author | No. of times co-cited | Half-life period |
| Granovetter | 125 | 12 | Zahra SA | 27 | 3 |
| Burt RS | 96 | 10 | Porter ME | 27 | 7 |
| Gulati R | 94 | 10 | Luo Jiade* | 25 | 4 |
| Uzzi B | 74 | 10 | McEvily B | 23 | 8 |
| Powell WW | 50 | 9 | Bian Yanjie* | 23 | 2 |
| Dyer JH | 48 | 9 | Wei Jiang* | 23 | 5 |
| Williamson OE | 41 | 8 | Zaheer A | 23 | 7 |
| Coleman JS | 41 | 11 | Coase RH | 22 | 3 |
| Ahuja G | 39 | 9 | Li Xinchun* | 22 | 6 |
| Tsai W | 35 | 9 | Zhu Xiumei* | 21 | 3 |
| Freeman LC | 31 | 9 | Wang Jici* | 20 | 6 |
| Ritter T | 30 | 2 | Eisenhardt KM | 20 | 7 |
| Hakansson H | 29 | 6 | Cai Ning* | 20 | 4 |
| Peng MW | 28 | 8 | Ren Shenggang* | 20 | 4 |
*Half-life period (HLP) was computed by CiteSpace. The higher HLP value is, the more enduring an author’s work is (i.e., the less likely an author’s work is outdated content-wise) (Luo, 1994).
*Names marked with asterisks are Chinese scholars, the others are foreign.