Los "Small Worlds" y el algoritmo de Floyd: una manera de estudiar la colaboración científica
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Peñaranda Ortega, M., López Serrano, R., Quiñones Vidal, E., & López García, J. J. (2006). Los "Small Worlds" y el algoritmo de Floyd: una manera de estudiar la colaboración científica. Psicothema, 18(Número 1), 78–83. Retrieved from https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/PST/article/view/8399

Abstract

The Small Worlds and the Floyd's algorithm: a way to study the 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 prospective of the analysis of networks is the lack of researches of particular nodes. With the implementation of a pseudogical algorism 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.
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