Types of Scientific Collaborators: A Perspective of Author Contribution Network

Lu, Chao; Ding, Ying; Zhang, Yingyi; Bu, Yi; Zhang, Chengzhi

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Title

Types of Scientific Collaborators: A Perspective of Author Contribution Network

Author(s)

• Lu, Chao
• Ding, Ying
• Zhang, Yingyi
• Bu, Yi
• Zhang, Chengzhi

Issue Date

2018

Keyword(s)

• scientific collaboration
• author contribution
• network analysis

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate interaction between collaborators within individual studies by measuring how they made contributions to their studies. Author contribution network is constructed based on the author contribution statements of 140,000 full-text articles in PloS by viewing every collaborator as a node and a shared contribution as an edge. Three types of contributors are identified: general team-players, factotums, and mavericks. The preliminary result suggests that division of labor widely exists in scientific re-search and the latter two types of collaborators are common in small teams.

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iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2018 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

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Copyright 2018 is held by Chao Lu, Ying Ding, Yingyi Zhang, Yi Bu, Chengzhi Zhang. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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