Scientific discovery and topological transitions in collaboration networks

We analyze the advent and development of eight scientific fields from their inception to maturity and map the evolution of their networks of collaboration over time, measured in terms of co-authorship of scientific papers. We show that as a field develops it undergoes a topological transition in its...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bettencourt, Luis M. A., Kaiser, David I., Kaur, Jasleen
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50230
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5054-6744