In this study, we develop a theoretical model based on social network theories and analytical methods for exploring collaboration (co-authorship) networks of scholars. We use measures from social network analysis (SNA) (i.e., normalized degree centrality, normalized closeness centrality, normalized betweenness centrality, normalized eigenvector centrality, average ties strength, and efficiency)...

The Pisacano Leadership Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the American Board of Family Medicine, recently selected its 2014 Pisacano Scholars. These 7 medical students follow in the footsteps of 95 scholar alumni who are practicing physicians and 16 current scholars who are enrolled in medical schools or family medicine residency programs across the country. The Pisacano Leadership Foundatio...

Corpus linguistics is a branch of linguistics in which the scholars analyse large collections of electronic documents. For English there are many such corpora. The earliest and best known is the Brown Corpus [1]. The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania is collecting several hundred million words of English. The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) [2] is specifying SGML Docum...