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Stability and Evolution of Scientific Networks

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Emergence; Evolving structures; Scientific communities; Social networks analysis; Social selection; Temporal metrics; Time-varying graphs

Glossary

APS:

American Physical Society

DOI:

Digital Object unique Identifiers associated to papers

Egalitarian growth:

the growth benefiting on average equally to each node

Evolution of social networks:

The change in time of the structure of a social network due to changing interactions between the components

TVG:

Time Varying Graphs

Introduction

Nowadays one of the most pressing as well as interesting scientific challenges deals with the analysis and the understanding of social systems’ dynamics and how these evolve according to the interactions among their components. The efforts in this area strive to understand what are the driving forces behind the evolution of social networks and how they are articulated together with social dynamics – e.g., opinion dynamics, the epidemic or innovation diffusion, the teams formation, and so forth...

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Thanks to the American Physical Society for allowing us to use the APS dataset.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Computational Epigenetics Group, Center for Genomic Science IIT@SEMM, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milano, Italy

    Eugenia Galeota

  2. Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133, Rome, Italy

    Susanna Liberti

  3. IRIT – Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, 2, rue du Doyen Gabriel Marty, 31042, Cedex 9, Toulouse, France

    Frédéric Amblard

  4. London Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 22 South Audley St, London, Mayfair, W1K 2NY, UK

    Walter Quattrociocchi

  5. Natwork Department, IMT Alti Studi Lucca, piazza S. Ponziano 6, 55100, Lucca, Italy

    Walter Quattrociocchi

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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    Tansel Ozyer

  2. Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

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Galeota, E., Liberti, S., Amblard, F., Quattrociocchi, W. (2018). Stability and Evolution of Scientific Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_386

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