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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Autors principals: Bettencourt, Luis M. A., Kaiser, David I., Kaur, Jasleen
Altres autors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Idioma:en_US
Publicat: Elsevier 2009
Accés en línia:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50230
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5054-6744