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Analyzing Link Dynamics in Scientific Collaboration Networks: A Social Yield Based Perspective

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Roshni Chakraborty,

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ASONAM '15: Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2015

Pages 1395 - 1402

https://doi.org/10.1145/2808797.2808835

Published: 25 August 2015 Publication History

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In this paper, we introduce social yield, a measure of collaboration success of the collaborating authors in a coauthorship network. We then attempt to empirically observe the link dynamics in collaboration networks induced by the social yield of the collaborations. Observation indicate that certain observed behavior like presence of large number of small sized communities and highly dynamic behavior of the links in collaboration networks can be explained based on the distribution of social yield of these collaborations. It is also observed that the distribution of social yield among the collaborations also affects the resilience of the collaboration networks to targeted link removal.

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Li JZhang JLi HJiang M(2018)Network and community structure in a scientific team with high creative performancePhysica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications10.1016/j.physa.2018.05.091508(702-709)Online publication date: Oct-2018
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2018.05.091
Chakraborty RPandey ASarkar SChandra J(2018)Link Dynamics and Community Formation in Social NetworksEncyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_110153(1191-1202)Online publication date: 12-Jun-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_110153
Gayen ABhavsar MChandra J(2017)Towards a Social Trust Based Measure of Scientific ProductivityProceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 201710.1145/3110025.3110082(790-797)Online publication date: 31-Jul-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3110025.3110082
Chakraborty RPandey ASarkar SChandra J(2017)Link Dynamics and Community Formation in Social NetworksEncyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_110153-1(1-12)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_110153-1

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