{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,13]],"date-time":"2026-04-13T15:05:26Z","timestamp":1776092726248,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":39,"publisher":"Springer Science and Business Media LLC","issue":"3","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,7]],"date-time":"2015-04-07T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1428364800000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,7]],"date-time":"2015-04-07T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1428364800000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["link.springer.com"],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Scientometrics"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2015,9]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract<\/jats:title>\n          <jats:p>This paper examines the collaboration structures and dynamics of the co-authorship network of all Slovenian researchers. Its goal is to identify the key factors driving collaboration and the main differences in collaboration behavior across scientific fields and disciplines. Two approaches to modelling network dynamics are combined in this paper: the small-world model and the mechanism of preferential attachment, also known as the process of cumulative advantage. Stochastic-actor-based modelling of co-authorship network dynamics uses data for the complete longitudinal co-authorship networks for the entire Slovenian scientific community from 1996 to 2010. We confirmed the presence of clustering in all fields and disciplines. Preferential attachment is far more complex than a single global mechanism. There were two clear distinctions regarding collaboration within scientific fields and disciplines. One was that some fields had an internal national saturation inhibiting further collaboration. The second concerned the differential impact of collaboration with scientists from abroad on domestic collaboration. In the natural, technical, medical, and biotechnical sciences, this promotes collaboration within the Slovenian scientific community while in the social sciences and humanities this inhibits internal collaboration.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1007\/s11192-015-1585-7","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,6]],"date-time":"2015-04-06T08:44:58Z","timestamp":1428309898000},"page":"985-1012","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":79,"title":["Scientific collaboration dynamics in a national scientific system"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"104","author":[{"given":"Anu\u0161ka","family":"Ferligoj","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Luka","family":"Kronegger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Franc","family":"Mali","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Tom A. B.","family":"Snijders","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Patrick","family":"Doreian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,7]]},"reference":[{"issue":"3","key":"1585_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"403","DOI":"10.1016\/j.joi.2012.01.002","volume":"6","author":"A Abbasi","year":"2012","unstructured":"Abbasi, A., Hossain, L., & Leydesdorff, L. (2012). Betweenness centrality as a driver of preferential attachment in the evolution of research collaboration networks. Journal of Infometrics, 6(3), 403\u2013412.","journal-title":"Journal of Infometrics"},{"key":"1585_CR2","volume-title":"Linked: The new science of networks","author":"AL Barab\u00e1si","year":"2002","unstructured":"Barab\u00e1si, A. L. (2002). Linked: The new science of networks (1st ed.). New York: Basic Books.","edition":"1"},{"key":"1585_CR3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"509","DOI":"10.1126\/science.286.5439.509","volume":"286","author":"AL Barab\u00e1si","year":"1999","unstructured":"Barab\u00e1si, A. L., & Albert, R. (1999). Emergence of scaling in random networks. Science, 286, 509\u2013512.","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"1585_CR4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"9","DOI":"10.1016\/j.chaos.2013.07.022","volume":"57","author":"A \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu","year":"2013","unstructured":"\u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu, A., & T\u00fcrker, I. (2013). Scientific collaboration network of Turkey. Chaos, Solutions and Fractals, 57, 9\u201318. doi:10.1016\/j.chaos.2013.07.022.","journal-title":"Chaos, Solutions and Fractals"},{"key":"1585_CR5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"220","DOI":"10.1016\/j.physa.2014.06.069","volume":"413","author":"A \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu","year":"2014","unstructured":"\u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu, A., & T\u00fcrker, I. (2014). Patterns of collaboration in four scientific disciplines of the Turkish collaboration network. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 413, 220\u2013229. doi:10.1016\/j.physa.2014.06.069.","journal-title":"Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications"},{"issue":"1","key":"1585_CR35","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"5","DOI":"10.1016\/0378-8733(78)90011-4","volume":"1","author":"I de Sola Pool","year":"1978","unstructured":"de Sola Pool, I., & Kochen, M. (1978). Contacts and influence. Social Networks, 1(1), 5\u201351.","journal-title":"Social Networks"},{"issue":"5","key":"1585_CR6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1091","DOI":"10.1007\/s11135-011-9493-2","volume":"45","author":"D De Stefano","year":"2011","unstructured":"De Stefano, D., Giordano, G., & Vitale, M. (2011). Issues in the analysis of co-authorship networks. Quality & Quantity, 45(5), 1091\u20131107. doi:10.1007\/s11135-011-9493-2.","journal-title":"Quality & Quantity"},{"issue":"2","key":"1585_CR7","first-page":"135","volume":"6","author":"A Ferligoj","year":"2009","unstructured":"Ferligoj, A., & Kronegger, L. (2009). Clustering of attribute and\/or relational data. Metodolo\u0161ki Zvezki (Advances in Methodology and Statistics), 6(2), 135\u2013153.","journal-title":"Metodolo\u0161ki Zvezki (Advances in Methodology and Statistics)"},{"key":"1585_CR8","volume-title":"Citation indexing: Its theory and application in science, technology, and humanities","author":"E Garfield","year":"1979","unstructured":"Garfield, E., & Merton, R. K. (1979). Citation indexing: Its theory and application in science, technology, and humanities. New York: Wiley."},{"issue":"5","key":"1585_CR9","first-page":"864","volume":"51","author":"B Grobolj\u0161ek","year":"2014","unstructured":"Grobolj\u0161ek, B., Ferligoj, A., Mali, F., Kronegger, L., & Igli\u010d, H. (2014). The role and significance of scientific collaboration for the new emerging sciences: The case of Slovenia. Teorija in praksa, 51(5), 864\u2013883.","journal-title":"Teorija in praksa"},{"key":"1585_CR10","unstructured":"Igli\u010d, H., Kronegger, L., Ferligoj, A., & Doreian, P. (2015). Forms and sources of research collaboration: Evidence across four scientific disciplines. Submitted."},{"issue":"3","key":"1585_CR11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"278","DOI":"10.1017\/nws.2013.21","volume":"1","author":"N Indlekofer","year":"2013","unstructured":"Indlekofer, N., & Brandes, U. (2013). Relative importance of effects in stochastic actor-oriented models. Network Science, 1(3), 278\u2013304.","journal-title":"Network Science"},{"issue":"5","key":"1585_CR12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"989","DOI":"10.1007\/s11135-011-9484-3","volume":"45","author":"L Kronegger","year":"2011","unstructured":"Kronegger, L., Ferligoj, A., & Doreian, P. (2011). On the dynamics of national scientific systems. Quality & Quantity, 45(5), 989\u20131015. doi:10.1007\/s11135-011-9484-3.","journal-title":"Quality & Quantity"},{"issue":"2","key":"1585_CR13","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"631","DOI":"10.1007\/s11192-011-0493-8","volume":"90","author":"L Kronegger","year":"2012","unstructured":"Kronegger, L., Mali, F., Ferligoj, A., & Doreian, P. (2012). Collaboration structures in Slovenian scientific communities. Scientometrics, 90(2), 631\u2013647. doi:10.1007\/s11192-011-0493-8.","journal-title":"Scientometrics"},{"key":"1585_CR14","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Kronegger, L., Mali, F., Ferligoj, A., & Doreian, P. (2014). Classifying scientific disciplines in Slovenia: A study of the evolution of collaboration structures. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. doi:10.1002\/asi.23171","DOI":"10.1002\/asi.23171"},{"issue":"4","key":"1585_CR15","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"431","DOI":"10.1080\/15427951.2005.10129111","volume":"2","author":"L Li","year":"2006","unstructured":"Li, L., Alderson, D., Doyle, J. C., & Willinger, W. (2006). Towards a theory of scale-free graphs: Definition, properties, and implications. Internet Mathematics, 2(4), 431\u2013523.","journal-title":"Internet Mathematics"},{"issue":"2","key":"1585_CR16","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"29","DOI":"10.14267\/cjssp.2010.02.02","volume":"1","author":"F Mali","year":"2010","unstructured":"Mali, F., Kronegger, L., & Ferligoj, A. (2010). Co-authorship trends and collaboration patterns in the Slovenian sociological community. Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy (CJSSP), 1(2), 29\u201350.","journal-title":"Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy (CJSSP)"},{"key":"1585_CR17","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"56","DOI":"10.1126\/science.159.3810.56","volume":"159","author":"RK Merton","year":"1968","unstructured":"Merton, R. K. (1968). The Matthew effect in science. Science, 159, 56\u201363.","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"1585_CR18","volume-title":"Sociology of science","author":"RK Merton","year":"1973","unstructured":"Merton, R. K. (1973). Sociology of science. Chicago: Chicago University Press."},{"issue":"2","key":"1585_CR19","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"213","DOI":"10.1177\/000312240406900204","volume":"69","author":"J Moody","year":"2004","unstructured":"Moody, J. (2004). The structure of a social science collaboration network: Disciplinary cohesion from 1963 to 1999. American Sociological Review, 69(2), 213\u2013238.","journal-title":"American Sociological Review"},{"key":"1585_CR20","unstructured":"Newman, M. E. J. (2000). Small worlds: the structure of social networks. Condmat\/0111070."},{"issue":"2","key":"1585_CR21","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"404","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.98.2.404","volume":"98","author":"MEJ Newman","year":"2001","unstructured":"Newman, M. E. J. (2001). The structure of scientific collaboration networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98(2), 404\u2013409. doi:10.1073\/pnas.021544898.","journal-title":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America"},{"key":"1585_CR22","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"475","DOI":"10.1016\/j.joi.2010.04.003","volume":"4","author":"M Perc","year":"2010","unstructured":"Perc, M. (2010). Growth and structure of Slovenia\u2019s scientific collaboration network. Journal of Informetrics, 4, 475\u2013482. arXiv:1004.4824 .","journal-title":"Journal of Informetrics"},{"issue":"2","key":"1585_CR23","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"431","DOI":"10.1093\/beheco\/arp194","volume":"21","author":"TW Pike","year":"2010","unstructured":"Pike, T. W. (2010). Collaboration networks and scientific impact among behavioral ecologists. Behavioral Ecology, 21(2), 431\u2013435. doi:10.1093\/beheco\/arp194.","journal-title":"Behavioral Ecology"},{"key":"1585_CR24","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.7312\/pric91844","volume-title":"Little science, big science and beyond","author":"DS Price","year":"1963","unstructured":"Price, D. S. (1963). Little science, big science and beyond. New York: Columbia University Press."},{"key":"1585_CR25","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"510","DOI":"10.1126\/science.149.3683.510","volume":"149","author":"DS Price","year":"1965","unstructured":"Price, D. S. (1965). Networks of scientific papers. Science, 149, 510\u2013515.","journal-title":"Science"},{"issue":"5","key":"1585_CR26","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"292","DOI":"10.1002\/asi.4630270505","volume":"27","author":"DS Price","year":"1976","unstructured":"Price, D. S. (1976). A general theory of bibliometric and other cumulative advantage processes. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 27(5), 292\u2013306. doi:10.1002\/asi.4630270505.","journal-title":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science"},{"issue":"4","key":"1585_CR27","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"21772184","DOI":"10.1016\/j.csda.2007.07.021","volume":"52","author":"YH Said","year":"2008","unstructured":"Said, Y. H., Wegman, E. J., Sharabati, W. K., & Rigsby, J. (2008). Social networks of author\u2013coauthor relationships. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 52(4), 21772184. doi:10.1016\/j.csda.2007.07.021.","journal-title":"Computational Statistics & Data Analysis"},{"key":"1585_CR28","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"107","DOI":"10.1016\/B978-0-444-70537-2.50009-X","volume-title":"Handbook of Quantitative Studies of Science and Technology","author":"W Shrum","year":"1988","unstructured":"Shrum, W., & Mullins, N. (1988). Network analysis in the study of science and technology. In A. van Ran (Ed.), Handbook of Quantitative Studies of Science and Technology (pp. 107\u2013133). Amsterdam: Elsevier."},{"key":"1585_CR29","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.7551\/mitpress\/7461.001.0001","volume-title":"Structures of scientific collaborations","author":"W Shrum","year":"2007","unstructured":"Shrum, W., Genuth, J., & Chompalo, I. (2007). Structures of scientific collaborations. Cambridge: The MIT Press."},{"key":"1585_CR30","first-page":"361","volume-title":"Sociological Methodology\u20142001","author":"TA Snijders","year":"2001","unstructured":"Snijders, T. A. (2001). The statistical evaluation of social network dynamics. In M. Sobel & M. Becker (Eds.), Sociological Methodology\u20142001 (pp. 361\u2013395). Oxford: Basil Blackwell."},{"key":"1585_CR31","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"215","DOI":"10.1017\/CBO9780511811395.011","volume-title":"Models and methods in social network analysis","author":"TA Snijders","year":"2005","unstructured":"Snijders, T. A. (2005). Models for longitudinal network data. In P. Carrington, J. Scott, & S. Wasserman (Eds.), Models and methods in social network analysis (pp. 215\u2013247). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press."},{"key":"1585_CR32","unstructured":"Snijders, T.A. (2008). Analysing dynamics of non-directed social networks. Draft paper. http:\/\/www.stats.ox.ac.uk\/snijders\/siena\/TwoSided_s."},{"key":"1585_CR33","first-page":"41","volume-title":"Longitudinal models in the behavioral and related sciences","author":"TA Snijders","year":"2007","unstructured":"Snijders, T. A., Steglich, C., & Schweinberger, M. (2007). Modeling the co-evolution of networks and behavior. In K. van Montfort, H. Oud, & A. Satorra (Eds.), Longitudinal models in the behavioral and related sciences (pp. 41\u201371). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum."},{"issue":"1","key":"1585_CR34","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"44","DOI":"10.1016\/j.socnet.2009.02.004","volume":"32","author":"TA Snijders","year":"2010","unstructured":"Snijders, T. A., van de Bunt, G. G., & Steglich, C. (2010). Introduction to stochastic actor-based models for network dynamics. Social Networks, 32(1), 44\u201360.","journal-title":"Social Networks"},{"key":"1585_CR36","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1608","DOI":"10.1016\/j.respol.2005.08.002","volume":"34","author":"C Wagner","year":"2005","unstructured":"Wagner, C., & Leydesdorff, L. (2005). Network structure, self-organization, and the growth of interantional collaboration in science. Research Policy, 34, 1608\u20131618.","journal-title":"Research Policy"},{"key":"1585_CR37","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"236","DOI":"10.1080\/01621459.1963.10500845","volume":"58","author":"J Ward","year":"1963","unstructured":"Ward, J. (1963). Hierarchical grouping to optimize as objective function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58, 236\u2013244.","journal-title":"Journal of the American Statistical Association"},{"issue":"6684","key":"1585_CR38","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"440","DOI":"10.1038\/30918","volume":"393","author":"DJ Watts","year":"1998","unstructured":"Watts, D. J., & Strogatz, S. H. (1998). Collective dynamics of \u2019small-world\u2019 networks. Nature, 393(6684), 440\u2013442. doi:10.1038\/30918.","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"1585_CR39","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/CBO9780511585067","volume-title":"Prometheus bound. Science in dynamic steady state","author":"J Ziman","year":"1994","unstructured":"Ziman, J. (1994). Prometheus bound. Science in dynamic steady state. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press."}],"container-title":["Scientometrics"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/s11192-015-1585-7.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11192-015-1585-7\/fulltext.html","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/s11192-015-1585-7","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"},{"URL":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/s11192-015-1585-7.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,2]],"date-time":"2021-09-02T10:31:58Z","timestamp":1630578718000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/10.1007\/s11192-015-1585-7"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,7]]},"references-count":39,"journal-issue":{"issue":"3","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2015,9]]}},"alternative-id":["1585"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11192-015-1585-7","relation":{},"ISSN":["0138-9130","1588-2861"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0138-9130","type":"print"},{"value":"1588-2861","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,7]]},"assertion":[{"value":"27 January 2015","order":1,"name":"received","label":"Received","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"value":"7 April 2015","order":2,"name":"first_online","label":"First Online","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}}]}}