The shape of collaborations

• Published in: EPJ data science Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 18 - 16
• Main Authors: Patania, Alice, Petri, Giovanni, Vaccarino, Francesco
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2017; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Authorship; Collaboration; communities; Complexity; computational topology; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences; Computer Science; Data science; Data-driven Science; Datasets; homology; Modeling and Theory Building; Physics; Regular Article; scientific collaborations; triadic closure; scientific collaborations; homology; triadic closure; computational topology; communities

The structure of scientific collaborations has been the object of intense study both for its importance for innovation and scientific advancement, and as a model system for social group coordination and formation thanks to the availability of authorship data. Over the last years, complex networks ap...