SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION NETWORK OF ACADEMICIANS IN METU

Abstract

: Scientific collaboration networks (SCNs) are web-like structures generated by collaborating patterns between scientists. Every co-authoring activity corresponds to a link between authors in such a network. Being successful prototypes of evolving complex networks, SCNs display the generic properties of self-organizing structures including social networks, in an aspect mirroring the scientific activities of the authors also. Collecting the scientific collaboration data of Middle East Technical University (METU) from Web of Science, we constructed a SCN spanning the years 1980 to 2015. Performing the network analysis procedures, we calculated the network parameters like average separation, average degree, degree distribution, average clustering coefficient etc. We outlined that the SCN of METU shows small-world and scale-free properties, also having high clustering between scientists.