We explore the relationship between collaborations in writing papers and the academic productivity of economists and, particularly, we describe the magnitude and intensity of co-authorship among economists. To that end, we employ interaction maps from Complex Systems methods to study the global properties of specific networks. We use 8,253 JCR papers from ISI-WOK, published by 5,188 economists ...

Given a research topic (e.g. reconstruction of the 1918 influenza virus) and a couple of seminal papers on that topic (e.g. [4] and [6]), how do we find authors who are conducting similar research? Traditional solutions to this problem include looking at the citations in the seminal papers and/or conducting Web searches on keywords associated with the chosen topic. Both of these commonly used s...

The paper applies social network analysis techniques to the task of analysis the dynamics and structure of the e-government research community. From the bibliographic data about papers published in the proceedings of this conference (International Conference on e-Government), we build a coauthorship network representing collaboration patterns among community members in the period from 2005 to 2...

As an interdisciplinary team that creates interactive art installations, we discuss the concepts of authorship in context of the creation of two interactive art installations. In our experience, the continually evolving question of authorship raises questions about joint authorship, or how the people who have created the piece declare authorship; as well as shared authorship, or how the viewers...

Gender disparities appear to be decreasing in academia according to a number of metrics, such as grant funding, hiring, acceptance at scholarly journals, and productivity, and it might be tempting to think that gender inequity will soon be a problem of the past. However, a large-scale analysis based on over eight million papers across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities reveal...

Stylometry refers to the statistical analysis of literary style of authors based on the characteristics of expression in their writings. We propose an approach to stylometry based on a Bayesian Dirichlet process mixture model using multinomial word frequency data. The parameters of the multinomial distribution of word frequency data are the “word prints” of the author. Our approach is based on ...

SPMF is an open-source data mining library, specialized in pattern mining, offering implementations of more than 120 data mining algorithms. It has been used in more than 310 research papers to solve applied problems in a wide range of domains from authorship attribution to restaurant recommendation. Its implementations are also commonly used as benchmarks in research papers, and it has also be...