Science collaboration networks in sociology and their general characteristics in Serbia

Science collaboration networks in sociology and their general characteristics in Serbia Lazar Zsolt Valentina Sokolovska

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Science collaboration networks in sociology and their general characteristics in Serbia 2012 Socioloski pregled 10.5937/socpreg1201003l zsolt2012-science-collaboration-networks-in zsolt2012-science-collaboration-networks-in.txt, the project's staged copy 4f702c378ba198840f0a27248e86728def4638a2 open-access sociology-of-science

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0 spans located by searching the stored text for the quote's exact words, allowing any whitespace between them existence Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. scientific coauthorship networks in sociology Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. observational-study observational-study Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. mechanisms 1990s isolation and economic collapse produced minimal science funding and minimal international contact, which suppressed the coauthorship that funding and contact would otherwise generate Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. mechanisms 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 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. mechanisms the absence of distinguished scientists who gather younger associates leaves no nuclei around which collaboration networks could form Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The paper states it cannot readily explain why Serbian sociologists do not co-author. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The paper notes that its comparison is between scientific communities of very different sizes, so the author/coauthor distributions are not directly comparable. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The field measures a thing it rarely defines: the paper states that very few works define what science collaboration is. 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 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The term rests on social convention, and what one researcher counts as collaboration another counts as a loose grouping. 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 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Each study narrows the term to one aspect, so the operational definitions differ between the works being compared. 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 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Citation counts aggregate acts that mean opposite things, including citing to display reading and deliberately not citing a rival. 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 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. science collaboration science collaboration Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. coauthored work coauthored work Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. citation citation Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. auto citation auto citation Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. core knowledge core knowledge Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. science 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 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. science 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 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. citation - SEVERAL DIFFERENT ACTS UNDER ONE NAME: bibliographic pairing, co-citation, direct, symbolic, negative, diplomatic and auto citation, which a count cannot tell apart Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. extends → Moody (2004), The Structure of a Social Science Collaboration Network Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. science collaboration —operationalised-as→ coauthored work science collaboration coauthored work 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. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. auto citation —is-a→ citation auto citation citation strength of the relation: 1 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. proportion proportion Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. frequency distribution frequency distribution Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Single-authored works make up 89.1% of the published texts and coauthored works only 10.9%. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Among the coauthored papers, collaboration between colleagues in the same institution is twice as frequent as collaboration across institutions. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The authors conclude from these frequencies that coauthorship networks among Serbian sociologists are underdeveloped. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Serbian sociologists at the start of the 21st century collaborated three times less than the sociologists in Moody's international data. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Using Moody's methodology, Kronegger and colleagues found different network structures among sociologists. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. None of the study programmes has a subject dedicated to the theory and analysis of social networks. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. In 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. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. basic research unit of science collaboration basic research unit of science collaboration Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. ceremonial citation ceremonial citation Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. diplomatic non-citation diplomatic non-citation Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. core knowledge core knowledge Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. research frontier research frontier Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. preferential attachment model preferential attachment model Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. small-world model small-world model Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. structural cohesion model structural cohesion model Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. proportion of author works proportion of author works Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. proportion of coauthor works proportion of coauthor works Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 89.1% — share of single-authored papers in the three Serbian sociology journals, 2000-2010 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 10.9% — share of coauthored papers in the same three journals over the same period Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 33.2% — share of coauthored works in Sociological Abstracts 1963-1999, the comparison figure taken from Moody Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 3.00 — 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 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution.

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