Bowling Together: Scientific Collaboration Networks of Demographers at European Population Conferences

Studies of collaborative networks of demographers are relatively scarce. Similar studies in other social sciences provide insight into scholarly trends of both the fields and characteristics of their successful scientists. Exploiting a unique database of metadata for papers presented at six European...

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Published in:European journal of population 2019-07, Vol.35 (3), p.543-562
Main Authors: Abel, Guy J., Muttarak, Raya, Bordone, Valeria, Zagheni, Emilio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Collaboration
Conferences
Demographics
Demography
Fertility
Human Geography
Methodology of the Social Sciences
Migration
Mortality
Networks
Population Economics
Population studies
Public Finance
Social networks
Social Sciences
Sociology
Teams
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Summary:Studies of collaborative networks of demographers are relatively scarce. Similar studies in other social sciences provide insight into scholarly trends of both the fields and characteristics of their successful scientists. Exploiting a unique database of metadata for papers presented at six European Population Conferences, this report explores factors explaining research collaboration among demographers. We find that (1) collaboration among demographers has increased over the past 10 years, however, among co-authored papers, collaboration across institutions remains relatively unchanged over the period, (2) papers based on core demographic subfields such as fertility, mortality, migration and data and methods are more likely to involve multiple authors and (3) multiple author teams that are all female are less likely to co-author with colleagues in different institutions. Potential explanations for these results are discussed alongside comparisons with similar studies of collaboration networks in other related social sciences.
ISSN:0168-6577
1572-9885
DOI:10.1007/s10680-018-9493-1