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ArticleScientific reports2018

Categorical and Geographical Separation in Science.

Julian Sienkiewicz, Krzysztof Soja, Janusz A Hołyst, Peter M A Sloot

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Julian SienkiewiczFaculty of Physics, Center of Excellence for Complex Systems Research, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, Warsaw, 00662, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-2097-1499
Krzysztof SojaFaculty of Physics, Center of Excellence for Complex Systems Research, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, Warsaw, 00662, Poland.
Janusz A HołystFaculty of Physics, Center of Excellence for Complex Systems Research, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, Warsaw, 00662, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-2645-0037
Peter M A SlootNational Research University ITMO, 49 Kronverkskiy av., Saint Petersburg, 197101, Russia. p.m.a.sloot@uva.nl.ORCID 0000-0002-3848-5395

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We study scientific collaboration at the level of universities. The scope of this study is to answer two fundamental questions: (i) can one indicate a category (i.e., a scientific discipline) that has the greatest impact on the rank of the university and (ii) do the best universities collaborate with the best ones only? Restricting ourselves to the 100 best universities from year 2009 we show how the number of publications in certain categories correlates with the university rank. Strikingly, the expected negative trend is not observed in all cases - for some categories even positive values are obtained. After applying Principal Component Analysis we observe clear categorical separation of scientific disciplines, dividing the papers into almost separate clusters connected to natural sciences, medicine and arts and humanities. Moreover, using complex networks analysis, we give hints that the scientific collaboration is still embedded in the physical space and the number of common papers decays with the geographical distance between them.

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PMCPMC5974177

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