Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Information Management, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne (Lehrstuhl fur Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Informationsmanagement), 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Journal databases provide an easy access to most scientifically relevant topics and articles. Since articles refer to other articles these, do provide a social network-like structure. Social networks follow certain patterns that contain relevant data about the current state or the development in the future. With these indications, we will try to use a social network...