Emergence of collaboration networks around large scale data repositories: A study of the genomics community using GenBank

Costa, M. R., Qin, J., & Bratt, S. (2016). Emergence of collaboration networks around large scale data repositories: A study of the genomics community using GenBank. Scientometrics, 108(1): 21-40. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-1954-x

We demonstrate that using complex network analysis to explore both networks independently and jointly provides a much richer description of the community, and addresses some of the methodological concerns dis-cussed in previous literature regarding the use of co-authorship data to study scientific collaboration