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Analysis of the Co-authorship Sub-networks of Italian Academic Researchers

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The Italian academic community is an interesting case study of emerging collaborations among people that share interest in some topics. In this paper, we select and analyze three different research areas—defined by the Italian law “academic disciplines” (SSDs)—each with different topics and interests: computer engineering, mathematics and economics. Specifically, we first collect the data of the academic researchers belonging to these SSDs from Elsevier’s Scopus public database and create the co–authorship networks. Then, we study the topological characteristics and the existing communities for each network and compare them, highlighting differences and similarities.

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This work has been partially supported by the project of University of Catania PIACERI, PIAno di inCEntivi per la Ricerca di Ateneo.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy

    Vincenza Carchiolo, Marco Grassia, Michele Malgeri & Giuseppe Mangioni

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Carchiolo, V., Grassia, M., Malgeri, M., Mangioni, G. (2022). Analysis of the Co-authorship Sub-networks of Italian Academic Researchers. In: Benito, R.M., Cherifi, C., Cherifi, H., Moro, E., Rocha, L.M., Sales-Pardo, M. (eds) Complex Networks & Their Applications X. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1072. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93409-5_27

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