Science collaboration networks in sociology and their general characteristics in Serbia

Lazar Zsolt, Valentina Sokolovska · Socioloski pregled · 2012 · sociology-of-science · 10.5937/socpreg1201003l · record zsolt2012-science-collaboration-networks-in
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science collaboration coauthored work citation auto citation core knowledge 1990s isolation and economic collapse produced minimal science funding and minimal international contact, which suppressed the coauthorship that funding and contact would otherwise generate projects framed around very general themes let each associate work on his own issue without leaving his own profession, so participation never turns into joint problem-solving and hence not into coauthorship the absence of distinguished scientists who gather younger associates leaves no nuclei around which collaboration networks could form basic research unit of science collaboration ceremonial citation diplomatic non-citation research frontier preferential attachment model small-world model structural cohesion model proportion of author works proportion of coauthor works proportion The proportion of author works in total number of published texts frequency distribution Frequency of authors’ and coauthors’ works observational-study

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limitationlimitationswhat the paper says its evidence cannot support
mechanismmechanismshow the reported effect is said to come about
methodmethodhow the paper produced its evidence
phenomenonphenomenonthe effect or regularity under study
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claim_typeexistence
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phenomenonscientific coauthorship networks in sociology
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methodobservational-study
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limitationsThe paper states it cannot readily explain why Serbian sociologists do not co-author.
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limitationsThe paper notes that its comparison is between scientific communities of very different sizes, so the author/coauthor distributions are not directly comparable.
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limitations[1]the tagger's words
limitationsThe field measures a thing it rarely defines: the paper states that very few works define what science collaboration is.
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what this limits: any result about science collaboration networks: the paper states very few works define what science collaboration is, so studies of it need not be studies of the same thing
limitations[2]1.0the tagger's words
limitationsThe term rests on social convention, and what one researcher counts as collaboration another counts as a loose grouping.
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what this limits: a comparison of collaboration rates between studies or communities: the term is hard to define because it is largely a matter of social conventions between scientists, and what some count as collaboration others would call a loose grouping or informal connection
limitations[3]1.0the tagger's words
limitationsEach study narrows the term to one aspect, so the operational definitions differ between the works being compared.
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what this limits: a synthesis across collaboration-network studies: researchers commonly take one aspect only and narrow their operational definitions accordingly, so the definitions differ between the studies being combined
limitations[4]1.0the tagger's words
limitationsCitation counts aggregate acts that mean opposite things, including citing to display reading and deliberately not citing a rival.
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what this limits: a citation-based measure of influence: the same count aggregates ceremonial citation, a demonstration of knowing the literature, with diplomatic non-citation, the purposeful omission of authors from a rival group
limitations[5]1.0the tagger's words
conceptsscience collaboration
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conceptscoauthored work
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conceptscore knowledge
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concepts[4]the paper's words
sensesscience collaboration - AS AT LEAST ONE SHARED BYLINE: in network analysis the authors are the nodes and a link exists if there is at least one coauthored work, so the relation is binary and carries no degree, duration or division of labour
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senses[0]1.0the tagger's words
sensesscience collaboration - AS A SOCIAL CONVENTION with moving boundaries: what counts is settled between scientists rather than by a criterion, and the paper says the boundary is prone to change
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senses[1]1.0the tagger's words
sensescitation - SEVERAL DIFFERENT ACTS UNDER ONE NAME: bibliographic pairing, co-citation, direct, symbolic, negative, diplomatic and auto citation, which a count cannot tell apart
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senses[2]1.0the tagger's words
claim_relationsextends → Moody (2004), The Structure of a Social Science Collaboration Network
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claim_relations[0]the tagger's words
concept_edgesscience collaboration —operationalised-as→ coauthored work
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strength of the relation: 1 Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its full span and kept, but endpoint by anaphora: the previous sentences name 'science collaboration networks' built on coauthorship.
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concept_edgesauto citation —is-a→ citation
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content_tagsproportion
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content_tagsfrequency distribution
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content_tagsSingle-authored works make up 89.1% of the published texts and coauthored works only 10.9%.
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content_tags.findings[0]the tagger's words
content_tagsAmong the coauthored papers, collaboration between colleagues in the same institution is twice as frequent as collaboration across institutions.
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content_tags.findings[1]the tagger's words
content_tagsThe authors conclude from these frequencies that coauthorship networks among Serbian sociologists are underdeveloped.
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content_tags.findings[2]the tagger's words
content_tagsSerbian sociologists at the start of the 21st century collaborated three times less than the sociologists in Moody's international data.
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content_tags.findings[3]the tagger's words
content_tagsUsing Moody's methodology, Kronegger and colleagues found different network structures among sociologists.
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content_tags.findings[4]the tagger's words
content_tagsNone of the study programmes has a subject dedicated to the theory and analysis of social networks.
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content_tags.findings[5]the tagger's words
content_tagsIn all four Slovenian disciplines examined, scientists preferentially form new coauthorships with the coauthors of their coauthors, closing triangles - a signature of small-world clustering within network borders.
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content_tagsbasic research unit of science collaboration
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content_tagsceremonial citation
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content_tagsdiplomatic non-citation
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content_tagscore knowledge
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content_tagsresearch frontier
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content_tagspreferential attachment model
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content_tagssmall-world model
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content_tagsstructural cohesion model
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content_tags.definitions[11]the tagger's words
content_tagsproportion of author works
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content_tags.variables[2]the tagger's words
content_tagsproportion of coauthor works
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content_tags.variables[3]the tagger's words
content_tags89.1% — share of single-authored papers in the three Serbian sociology journals, 2000-2010
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content_tags.quantities[0]the tagger's words
content_tags10.9% — share of coauthored papers in the same three journals over the same period
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content_tags.quantities[1]the tagger's words
content_tags33.2% — share of coauthored works in Sociological Abstracts 1963-1999, the comparison figure taken from Moody
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content_tags.quantities[2]the tagger's words
content_tags3.00 — average network distance between Slovenian sociologists reported by Kronegger et al., against 3.97 in physics, 4.36 in biotechnology and 3.91 in mathematics
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