Descrição: Using social network analysis, we test if the non-uniqueness of a paradigm within a scientific field implies that authors defending the same paradigm group in the same Journal(s). Do the authors have to "belong to the club" in order to publish in the "club" Journal? We propose to model the scientific collaboration networks using the papers as nodes and a novel edge weighting function that takes into account the average number of authors per paper. We show that the networks generated by the papers published in Physics and Finance Journals have different characteristics that may sustain our hypothesis.

Situação: Em andamento. Início: 2010. Natureza: Pesquisa.

Integrantes: João Mergulhão, João Amaro de Matos.