Author, as appears in the article.: Danús, L; Muntaner, C; Krauss, A; Sales-Pardo, M; Guimerà, R
Department: Enginyeria Química
URV's Author/s: Danús Amengual, Lluís / Guimera Manrique, Roger / Sales Pardo, Marta
Keywords: Scientific collaboration Science of science Research impact Computational social science Complex networks Collaboration networks teams science research impact networks computational social science complex networks collaboration networks coauthorship
Abstract: Scientists collaborate through intricate networks, which impact the quality and scope of their research. At the same time, funding and institutional arrangements, as well as scientific and political cultures, affect the structure of collaboration networks. Since such arrangements and cultures differ across regions in the world in systematic ways, we surmise that collaboration networks and impact should also differ systematically across regions. To test this, we compare the structure of collaboration networks among prominent researchers in North America and Europe. We find that prominent researchers in Europe establish denser collaboration networks, whereas those in North America establish more decentralized networks. We also find that the impact of the publications of prominent researchers in North America is significantly higher than for those in Europe, both when they collaborate with other prominent researchers and when they do not. Although Europeans collaborate with other prominent researchers more often, which increases their impact, we also find that repeated collaboration among prominent researchers decreases the synergistic effect of collaborating.
Thematic Areas: Social sciences, mathematical methods Modeling and simulation Mathematics, interdisciplinary applications Engenharias iv Engenharias i Computer science applications Computational mathematics Ciencias sociales Ciência da computação
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: roger.guimera@urv.cat marta.sales@urv.cat lluis.danus@estudiants.urv.cat lluis.danus@estudiants.urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3597-4310 0000-0002-8140-6525 0000-0001-6242-6486 0000-0001-6242-6486
Record's date: 2024-04-10
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00378-6
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Epj Data Science. 12 (1): 12-
APA: Danús, L; Muntaner, C; Krauss, A; Sales-Pardo, M; Guimerà, R (2023). Differences in collaboration structures and impact among prominent researchers in Europe and North America. Epj Data Science, 12(1), 12-. DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00378-6
Article's DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00378-6
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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