title: The evolution of your success lies at the centre of your co-authorship network.
abstract: Collaboration among scholars and institutions is progressively becoming essential to the success of research grant procurement and to allow the emergence and evolution of scientific disciplines. Our work focuses on analysing if the volume of collaborations of one author together with the relevance of his collaborators is somewhat related to his research performance over time. In order to prove this relation we collected the temporal distributions of scholars' publications and citations from the Google Scholar platform and the co-authorship network (of Computer Scientists) underlying the well-known DBLP bibliographic database. By the application of time series clustering, social network analysis and non-parametric statistics, we observe that scholars with similar publications (citations) patterns also tend to have a similar centrality in the co-authorship network. To our knowledge, this is the first work that considers success evolution with respect to co-authorship.
authors.affiliation: Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; I&C Laboratory, AtlantTIC Research Center, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain.
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Servia-Rodríguez
authors.affiliation: Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Anastasios
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Noulas
authors.affiliation: Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mascolo
authors.affiliation: I&C Laboratory, AtlantTIC Research Center, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fernández-Vilas
authors.affiliation: I&C Laboratory, AtlantTIC Research Center, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain.
authors.forename: Rebeca P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Díaz-Redondo
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship; D015706:Bibliometrics; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D006801:Humans; D011642:Publications / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012586:Science