christine-hvw/socium_coauthorship

Paper on temporal emergence of co-authorship networks

The Formation of Co-authorship Networks - A Case Study of the SOCIUM Research Institute - Working paper

Summary

This study aims at counteracting the neglect of social science co-authorship practices in the literature by accessing the complete scientific publication data of a well-established research center at the University of Bremen. The dataset encompasses a network of 240 authors over the course of ten years (2010-2019). Alongside the bibliographic entries, several other features to investigate the generative process behind this case of co-authorship were encoded during the data collection process. To account for the interdependent as well as temporal nature of the data, I employ the temporal version of an exponential random graph model (TERGM) to explain the emergence of co-authorship, i.e., the formation of ties in this network.

Repository structure and instructions

	Description
socium-coauthorship/
├── data/	raw data used in analyses
├── figures/	figures included in report
├── intermediate/	intermediate objects
├── renv/	files to restore package versions
├── ...
├── renv.lock	package versions
├── report.pdf	compiled report
├── report.Rmd	code and text used to compile report
└── ...

To reproduce the analyses, download this repository and run report.Rmd. Also, delete the objects in intermediate/ if you want to re-compute them. They were saved to reduce compilation time of the report.

More information on how to use the {renv} package can be found here. In short, the function renv::restore() will load package versions as specified in renv.lock into your R session.

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