How to become an important player in scientific collaboration networks?

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Highlights：

• Prolific mid-career researchers with a lot of direct connections and financial power can control the flow of knowledge and access to the resources.

• Local influencers are mostly found to be mid-career productive researchers who have a lot of direct connections.

• Highly connected industrial researchers who are on average less productive tend to collaborate in knit groups.

摘要

•Prolific mid-career researchers with a lot of direct connections and financial power can control the flow of knowledge and access to the resources.•Local influencers are mostly found to be mid-career productive researchers who have a lot of direct connections.•Highly connected industrial researchers who are on average less productive tend to collaborate in knit groups.

论文关键词：Network structure,Collaboration,Statistical analysis,NSERC,Canada

论文评审过程：Received 13 January 2015, Revised 30 July 2015, Accepted 4 August 2015, Available online 3 September 2015, Version of Record 3 September 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2015.08.002