Abstract
In invisible colleges the relative frequency of coauthorships is higher between scientists with the same number of publications than between authors of different ones. The opposite is valid in institutionalized communities.
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Kretschmer, H. Coauthorship networks of invisible colleges and institutionalized communities. Scientometrics 30, 363–369 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02017234
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02017234