Essers, Dennis; Grigoli, Francesco; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2020
series constitutes an appropriate testing ground to examine the endogenous nature of co-authorship formation. We show that … the co-authorship network is characterized by many authors with few direct co-authors, yet indirectly connected to each … other through short co-authorship chains. We find that a shorter distance in the co-authorship network is key for starting …