Abstract
Given extensive research collaboration in modern science, both at thenational and international level, one might wonder whether the network ofresearchers within each discipline is now sufficiently meshed that a largeproportion of contributors to peer-reviewed journals in a given field couldeither share joint publications or, more realistically, be connected throughchains of co-authorships. Such is not the case yet in the fields of probabilityand statistics, however, as shown here using a large data base covering 9reknown journals from each of these two areas over the period 1986-1995.
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Genest, C., Thibault, C. Investigating the concentration within a research community using joint publications and co-authorship via intermediaries. Scientometrics 51, 429–440 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012761903614
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