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Academic careers in Computer Science: Continuance and transience of lifetime co-authorships

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Scholarly publications reify fruitful collaborations between co-authors. A branch of research in the Science Studies focuses on analyzing the co-authorship networks of established scientists. Such studies tell us about how their collaborations developed through their careers. This paper updates previous work by reporting a transversal and a longitudinal studies spanning the lifelong careers of a cohort of researchers from the DBLP bibliographic database. We mined 3,860 researchers' publication records to study the evolution patterns of their co-authorships. Two features of co-authors were considered: 1) their expertise, and 2) the history of their partnerships with the sampled researchers. Our findings reveal the ephemeral nature of most collaborations: 70% of the new co-authors were only one-shot partners since they did not appear to collaborate on any further publications. Overall, researchers consistently extended their co-authorships 1) by steadily enrolling beginning researchers (i.e., people who had never published before), and 2) by increasingly working with confirmed researchers with whom they already collaborated.
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hal-01113804 , version 1 (06-02-2015)

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Guillaume Cabanac, Gilles Hubert, Béatrice Milard. Academic careers in Computer Science: Continuance and transience of lifetime co-authorships. Scientometrics, 2015, 102 (1), pp.135-150. ⟨10.1007/s11192-014-1426-0⟩. ⟨hal-01113804⟩
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