Social Network Analysis of Coauthor Networks in Inclusive Finance in China

Abstract

The proposal and innovation of inclusive finance provide a very valuable pathway to realize social equity and eliminate poverty, which has attracted extensive attention, especially from developing countries. Based on the papers on inclusive finance published in the Chinese journal database CNKI from 2014 to 2018, we constructed an undirected weighted coauthor network 2154 authors. By employing social network analysis, we found that the number of authors in the field of inclusive finance increased rapidly. Although the cooperation between them was still very low and the cooperation authors were relatively fixed, the scale of cooperation was rapidly expanding. Although no scholar could always be at the center position in the coauthor network, the knowledge transfer path was significantly reduced. Financial universities and some financial institutions were the most important promoters of inclusive finance. Knowledge discovery in this field was promoted alternately by several center authors and cooperation by many scholars 2014 - 2018. We believe these discoveries are of great significance to promote knowledge sharing and innovation in the academic community of inclusive finance.