A large and growing body of empirical research shows that social relationships and the
networks these relationships constitute are influential in explaining the processes of …

This article examines the rise in co-authorship in the Social Sciences over a 34-year period.
It investigates the development in co-authorship in different research fields and discusses …

This study maps and analyzes the scientific research networks of family business
succession. We examine coauthors' activities in terms of not only productivity but also their …

This paper investigates a possibly fundamental aspect of technological progress. If
knowledge accumulates as technology advances, then successive generations of …

Has sociology become more socially integrated over the last 30 years? Recent work in the
sociology of knowledge demonstrates a direct linkage between social interaction patterns …

In recent decades there has been growing interest in the nature and scale of scientific
collaboration. Studies into co‐authorship have taken two different approaches. The first one …

We study the evolution of social distance among economists over the period 1970–2000.
While the number of economists has more than doubled, the distance between them, which …

In recent decades, co‐authorship and policies aimed at inducing academic collaboration
have increased simultaneously. Assuming that intellectual collaboration is exogenously …

There is increasing policy interest in the recruitment and integration of star scientists as a
mechanism to catalyse research productivity. We use rich data for three Small Open …

The structure and the sociology of scientific collaborations are receiving increasing interest,
especially in a world characterized by complex problems, dynamic growth of knowledge …