Academic team formation as evolving hypergraphs

Scientometrics

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 721-740

  Taramasco, Carla ^a,b,c   Cointet, Jean Philippe ^a,b,d   Roth, Camille ^a,b,e,f  

^a UPS3611   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^d IFRIS Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société   (France)

^e ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epistemic dynamics social cohesion; Hypergraphs; Scientific collaboration; Social network analysis; Socio semantic networks; Team formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958472327     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0226-4     Document Type: Article

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