Informal contacts in science: a probabilistic model for communication processes.
Significant contacts among scientists within research specialties are generally infrequent and are distributed as an essentially random process, the pattern of most contacts conforming to a Poisson distribution. Extremely productive persons in a specialty, however, seem to form a separate distribution; they have a considerably higher number of contacts.
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