The structure of scientific collaboration networks Export

@article{citeulike:128, abstract = {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 \^{a}€œsmall worlds,\^{a}€ 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.}, address = {Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA. mark@santafe.edu}, author = {Newman, M. E. J.}, citeulike-article-id = {128}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.021544898}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.pnas.org/content/98/2/404.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.pnas.org/content/98/2/404.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/2/404}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11149952}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=11149952}, day = {16}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.021544898}, issn = {0027-8424}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America}, keywords = {collaboration, koelpu, science}, month = {January}, number = {2}, pages = {404--409}, posted-at = {2005-01-11 06:54:10}, priority = {4}, title = {The structure of scientific collaboration networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.021544898}, volume = {98}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:128 L3 - citeulike-article-id:128 N2 - 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. IS - 2 JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America SN - 0027-8424 AD - Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA. mark@santafe.edu EP - 409 TI - The structure of scientific collaboration networks VL - 98 SP - 404 KW - collaboration KW - koelpu KW - science AU - Newman, MEJ PY - 2001/01/16/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.021544898 ER -