The structure of scientific collaboration networks

Details The structure of scientific collaboration networks The structure of scientific collaboration networks

2000-07-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0007214v1

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 404-409 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages, 3 postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1073/pnas.021544898

We investigate the structure of scientific collaboration networks. We consider two scientists to be connected if they have authored a paper together, and construct explicit networks of such connections using data drawn from a number of databases, including MEDLINE (biomedical research), the Los Alamos e-Print Archive (physics), and NCSTRL (computer science). We show that these collaboration networks form "small worlds" in which randomly chosen pairs of scientists are typically separated by only a short path of intermediate acquaintances. We further give results for mean and distribution of numbers of collaborators of authors, demonstrate the presence of clustering in the networks, and highlight a number of apparent differences in the patterns of collaboration between the fields studied.

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