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Co-authorship Networks: An Introduction

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In this chapter we introduce and formally define co-authorship networks. Formal definitions of co-authorship networks as undirected graphs, directed graphs and hypergraphs are given. Different schemes to assign weights to co-authorship links are also discussed. Then, we give a classification of co-authorship networks according to the type of research collaboration they represent. Finally, the main applications of co-authorship networks are outlined.

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    Miloš Savić & Mirjana Ivanović

  2. Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, P.O. Box 123, Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Savić, M., Ivanović, M., Jain, L.C. (2019). Co-authorship Networks: An Introduction. In: Complex Networks in Software, Knowledge, and Social Systems. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 148. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91196-0_5

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