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Tracing policy diffusion: Identifying main paths in policy citation networks

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Journal of Information Science

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Abstract

Journal of Information Science, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 451-470, April 2026.
Citation-based main path analysis (MPA) has been widely applied to identify developmental trajectories of science and technology, while rarely used to detect paths of policy diffusion. Compared with scientific publications and patents, policy documents ...