Author: Alberto Pepe Title: The relationship between acquaintanceship and coauthorship in scientific collaboration networks Venue: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62: 2121–2132. doi: 10.1002/asi.21629 Abstract: This article examines the relationship between acquaintanceship and coauthorship patterns in a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, geographically distributed research center. Two social networks are constructed and compared: a network of coauthorship, representing how researchers write articles with one another, and a network of acquaintanceship, representing how those researchers know each other on a personal level, based on their responses to an online survey. Statistical analyses of the topology and community structure of these networks point to the importance of small-scale, local, personal networks predicated upon acquaintanceship for accomplishing collaborative work in scientific communities.
