[The Small Worlds and Floyd's algorithms: a way to study scientific collaboration].
Many proposals from the analysis of social networks focused on the study of scientific collaboration have been made recently. The Small Worlds theory seems to be the most efficient to study the inner features of the scientific community. Those researches have demonstrated that small communities are based on some key individuals who connect some groups which, on the contrary, would be disconnected. One of the disadvantages from the perspective of the analysis of networks is the lack of researches of particular nodes. With the implementation of a pseudocode algorithm of Floyd, we try to avoid this. To study how a small community is formed and, as a research of one case, we observe the invisible college which is formed when connecting the fifteen most productive authors of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology .
Peñaranda Ortega
María
M
Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. mariap@um.es
López Serano
Rafael
R
Quiñones Vidal
Elena
E
López García
Juan José
JJ
D000465:Algorithms; D001319:Authorship; D015706:Bibliometrics; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004526:Efficiency; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011593:Psychology, Social; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012944:Social Support