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Zbl 1065.00518
Newman, M. E. J.
The structure of scientific collaboration networks. (English)
[J] Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, No. 2, 404-409 (2001). ISSN 0027-8424; ISSN 1091-6490/e

Summary: The structure of scientific collaboration networks is investigated. Two scientists are considered connected if they have authored a paper together and explicit networks of such connections are constructed by using data drawn from a number of databases, including MEDLINE (biomedical research), the Los Alamos e-Print Archive (physics), and NCSTRL (computer science). I 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. I 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.

MSC 2000:: *00A99 Miscellaneous topics in general mathematics
01A80 Sociology (and profession) of mathematics

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