Newman, M. E. J. The structure of scientific collaboration networks. (English) Zbl 1065.00518 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, No. 2, 404-409 (2001). 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. Cited in 206 Documents MSC: 00A99 General and miscellaneous specific topics 01A80 Sociology (and profession) of mathematics PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{M. E. J. Newman}, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, No. 2, 404--409 (2001; Zbl 1065.00518) Full Text: DOI arXiv