%0 Journal Article
%T The Dynamics of the Distribution of co-authors
%A Wójtowicz, Tomasz
%A Rzecki, Krzysztof
%A Pławiak, Paweł
%A Niedźwiecki, Michał
%A Sośnicki, Tomasz
%A Wojtoń, Tomasz
%A Smelcerz, Katarzyna
%A Tabor, Zbisław
%J Czasopismo Techniczne
%V 2015
%R 10.4467/2353737XCT.15.116.4153
%N Nauki Podstawowe Zeszyt 1-NP (19) 2015
%P 85-103
%K cooperation, PubMed, authorship, social dilemma
%@ 0011-4561
%D 2016
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/czasopismo-techniczne/artykul/the-dynamics-of-the-distribution-of-co-authors
%X 
	In the present paper, the case of a database of scientific articles is described. There can be observed the quantitative effects of the increasing strength of cooperation between scholars. It is manifested in time-related features changes of the numbers distribution of a single co-authors’ article. The distribution of the number of co-authors of an article recorded in the database evolves with time from a profile with no more than one author to a profile with several authors. A social dilemma model is proposed to explain the dynamics of changes in the distribution of the number of co-authors. The most successful strategy of the three considered alternative strategies of cooperation is selected.