Indicators of collaboration intensity?

[Jane M. Russell]

Dear Steven,

I would like to draw your attention to the following paper published by two of my Mexican colleagues:

Liberman, S. & Wolf, K.B.: Bonding number in scientific disciplines. Social Networks, 20: 239-246(1998).

Hope you find it useful,  Jane 

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Dr. Jane M. Russell
Centro Universitario de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Torre II de Humanidades piso 11
Ciudad Universitaria
04510 México DF
México

Tel: (52) 55-56230363
Fax: (52) 55-55507461

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From: "Steven A. Morris" <samorri at OKSTATE.EDU>
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Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 9:56 AM
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Indicators of collaboration intensity?


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> Hi folks,
> 
> Does anyone out there know of an indicator of the "intensity" of
> collaboration that characterizes a research specialty?  For example,
> mathematicians tend to be loners that don't often work with others,
> therefore mathematical specialties have "low" collaboration intensity.
> Biomedical researchers tend to work in large teams, so biomedical
> specialties have "high" collaboration intensity.
> 
> One possible indicator would be the mean authors per paper in a
> specialty's literature. This is actually not a very sensitive indicator I
> think.  Another indicator could be the percentage of single authored
> papers, which I think is more sensitive, e.g.,
> 
> Specialty   percent 1     collaboration
>            auth papers   intensity
> ======================================
> Distance     47%           low
> eductation
> 
> Complex      23%           medium
> networks
> 
> angio-       7%            high
> genesis
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas or references on
> collaboration intensity indicators?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steven Morris
> Oklahoma State University
> 
>
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