TY - GEN
T1 - A social network perspective on the success of open source software
T2 - 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020
AU - Zanella, Gianluca
AU - Liu, Charles Z.
AU - Choo, Kim Kwang Raymond
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In this paper, we seek to identify the factors that influence the impact of open source software (OSS) on users community through the analysis of the evolution of the OSS network. Based on longitudinal data collected from the comprehensive R archive network (CRAN), we empirically examine how the network of R packages evolves over time and exert its influence on the scientific community. We find that critical network features derived from CRAN, such as pagerank, closeness, and betweenness centralities, play a significant role in determining the impact of each package on the research and publication activities in the scientific community. Furthermore, the performance of R packages can be explained as a flow of information from the core to the periphery that exhibits strong spillover effects.
AB - In this paper, we seek to identify the factors that influence the impact of open source software (OSS) on users community through the analysis of the evolution of the OSS network. Based on longitudinal data collected from the comprehensive R archive network (CRAN), we empirically examine how the network of R packages evolves over time and exert its influence on the scientific community. We find that critical network features derived from CRAN, such as pagerank, closeness, and betweenness centralities, play a significant role in determining the impact of each package on the research and publication activities in the scientific community. Furthermore, the performance of R packages can be explained as a flow of information from the core to the periphery that exhibits strong spillover effects.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85087218803
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 471
EP - 480
BT - Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 7 January 2020 through 10 January 2020
ER -