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2022
Boekhout, H. D.; Heemskerk, E. M.; Takes, F. W.
Evolution of the World Stage of Global Science from a Scientific City Network Perspective Proceedings Article
In: Benito, R. M.; Cherifi, C.; Cherifi, Hocine; Moro, Esteban; Rocha, Luis M.; Sales-Pardo, Marta (Ed.): Complex Networks & Their Applications X, pp. 142–154, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-030-93409-5.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: City networks, Rank correlation, Scientific cities, Scientific co-authorship networks, Temporal networks
@inproceedings{boekhout_evolution_2022,
title = {Evolution of the World Stage of Global Science from a Scientific City Network Perspective},
author = {H. D. Boekhout and E. M. Heemskerk and F. W. Takes},
editor = {R. M. Benito and C. Cherifi and Hocine Cherifi and Esteban Moro and Luis M. Rocha and Marta Sales-Pardo},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-93409-5_13},
isbn = {978-3-030-93409-5},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {Complex Networks & Their Applications X},
pages = {142–154},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {This paper investigates the stability and evolution of the world stage of global science at the city level by analyzing changes in co-authorship network centrality rankings over time. Driven by the problem that there exists no consensus in the literature on how the spatial unit “city” should be defined, we first propose a new approach to delineate so-called scientific cities. On a high-quality Web of Science dataset of 21.5 million publications over the period 2008–2020, we study changes in centrality rankings of subsequent 3-year time-slices of scientific city co-authorship networks at various levels of impact. We find that, over the years, the world stage of global science has become more stable. Additionally, by means of a comparison with degree respecting rewired networks we reveal how new co-authorships between authors from previously unconnected cities more often connect ‘close’ cities in the network periphery.},
keywords = {City networks, Rank correlation, Scientific cities, Scientific co-authorship networks, Temporal networks},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
This paper investigates the stability and evolution of the world stage of global science at the city level by analyzing changes in co-authorship network centrality rankings over time. Driven by the problem that there exists no consensus in the literature on how the spatial unit “city” should be defined, we first propose a new approach to delineate so-called scientific cities. On a high-quality Web of Science dataset of 21.5 million publications over the period 2008–2020, we study changes in centrality rankings of subsequent 3-year time-slices of scientific city co-authorship networks at various levels of impact. We find that, over the years, the world stage of global science has become more stable. Additionally, by means of a comparison with degree respecting rewired networks we reveal how new co-authorships between authors from previously unconnected cities more often connect ‘close’ cities in the network periphery.