CO-AUTHORSHIP NETWORK COMPARISON OF FOUR TURKISH UNIVERSITIES

Year 2016, Volume: 5 , 196 - 202, 01.09.2016

İlker Turker , Rafet Durgut , Abdullah Cavusoglu

Abstract

Co-authorship networks are remarkable applications of
complex networks, an interdisciplinary framework of exploring systems composed
of smaller components with numerous interconnections. Generating connections
(links) between collaborating authors, we constructed co-authorship networks of
four Turkish universities as İstanbul Technical University, Selçuk University,
Sakarya University and Karabük University. Along with the node and edge counts,
we investigated the time evolution of network parameters like average degree,
modularity, clustering coefficient and average path length in yearly
resolution. We also outlined the effect of being a first-mover (or late) as a
university in terms of the network parameters.

Keywords

Scientific collaboration networks, complex networks, co-authorship networks, scale free networks

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