Title
Six Degrees of Separation among US Researchers
Abstract
Funding from the government agencies has been the driving force for the research and educational institutions particularly in the United States. The government funds billions of dollars every year to lead research initiatives that will shape the future. In this paper, we analyze the funds distributed by the National Science Foundation (NSF), a major source of research funding in the States, to understand the collaboration patterns among researchers and institutions. Using complex network analysis, we interpret the collaboration patterns at researcher, institution and state levels by constructing the corresponding networks based on the number of grants collaborated. We further analyze the directorates to identify the differences in collaboration trends between disciplines.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ASONAM.2012.109
Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
Keywords
Field
DocType
national science foundation,united states,collaboration trend,research funding,collaboration pattern,us researchers,corresponding network,research initiative,government funds billion,complex network analysis,government agency,complex network,six degrees of separation,public finance,government policies,complex networks
Six degrees of separation,Computer science,Public relations,Peer to peer computing,Public policy,Complex network,Artificial intelligence,Public finance,Complex network analysis,Machine learning,Government
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-2497-7
4
0.43
References 
Authors
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hakan Kardes1243.52
Abdullah Sevincer2394.15
Mehmet Hadi Günes314916.19
Murat Yuksel444561.52