The Dynamics of the Distribution of co-authors

Tomasz Wójtowicz; Krzysztof Rzecki; Paweł Pławiak; Michał Niedźwiecki; Tomasz Sośnicki; Tomasz Wojtoń; Katarzyna Smelcerz; Zbisław Tabor

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Abstract

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.

Keywords

cooperation, PubMed, authorship, social dilemma

References

Information

Information: Technical Transactions, 2015, Fundamental Sciences Issue 1-NP (19) 2015, pp. 85 - 103

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.15.116.4153

Article type: Original article

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Polish:

The Dynamics of the Distribution of co-authors

English:

The Dynamics of the Distribution of co-authors

Authors

Tomasz Wójtowicz

Institute of Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Krzysztof Rzecki

Instytut Teleinformatyki, Wydział Fizyki, Matematyki i Informatyki, Politechnika Krakowska

Paweł Pławiak