Role of Trust in Evolution of Scientific Collaboration Networks

A method for the identification of collaboration in large scientific databases

“…From the data available in scientific publications, it is possible to build collaborative networks in which the authors of published works are represented as network nodes, and the publications that these authors have collaborated on are represented as edges (links between the nodes). Gayen and Chandra (2014) note that the strength of the relation is often determined by the number of publications being made by the collaborating researchers. Thus this relation among the collaborators can be represented by a weighted network, where the nodes represent the authors and the links' weights are determined by the strength of the relation.…”