%0 Journal Article %1 citeulike:128 %A Newman, M. E. J. %C Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA. mark@santafe.edu %D 2001 %J Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America %K Collaborative Network Research %N 2 %P 404--409 %R 10.1073/pnas.021544898 %T The structure of scientific collaboration networks %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.021544898 %V 98 %X 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.

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