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Locating the network of interacting authors in scientific specialties

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This paper seeks to describe the social circles, networks, or invisible colleges etc that make a scientific speciality in terms of (mathematically precise) sets generated by documents citation and accessible through theSocial Science Citation Index \TM. The document and author sets that encompass a scientific speciality are the basis for some interdependent citation matrices. We illustrate our method of construction of these sets and matrices through an application to the literature on \ldinvisible colleges\rd.

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  1. Inforsk Department of Sociology, Umeå University, S-901 87, Umeå, Sweden

    O. Persson

  2. Institutet för Framtidsstudier, Box 591, S-101 31, Stockholm, Sweden

    M. Beckmann

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Persson, O., Beckmann, M. Locating the network of interacting authors in scientific specialties. Scientometrics 33, 351–366 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02017336

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