Meaning can be generated when information is related at a systemic level. Such a system can be an observer, but also a …

This study examines collaboration dynamics with the goal to predict and recommend collaborations starting from the … current topology. Author-, institution-, and country-level collaboration networks are constructed using a ten-year data set on … library and information science publications. Different statistical approaches are applied to these collaboration networks …

Collaboration can be described using layered systems such as the article–author–institute–country structure. These … studying the intensity of collaboration between entities at a given level (e.g., between institutions). Specifically, we define … spread of knowledge through collaboration in such systems. Based on these notions, we introduce relative and absolute proper …

spatial distribution of research and citations, (ii) the existence of spatial biases in collaboration, citations and mobility …

. The average collaboration distance per publication has increased from 334km in 1980 to 1553 km in 2009. Despite …

per author is a function of i: Ai=f(i). However, with increasing collaboration in science and in technology the study of …-ordered collaboration structures of co-author pairs will be presented, i.e. the frequency of co-author pairs Nij between authors with i …

It is widely believed that collaboration is advantageous in science, for example, with collaboratively written articles … tending to attract more citations than solo articles and strong arguments for the value of interdisciplinary collaboration … a citation advantage for collaboration on monographs. In contrast, for nearly all these subjects (28 out of 30) there …