Visualization of co-authorship networks at CENS

Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

Primary contact
Alberto Pepe
Ph.D Student
Department of Information Studies
( 310) 600-3929
apepe@ucla.edu

Project URL

research.cens.ucla.edu

Additional project researchers

Christine L. Borgman, Department of Information Studies
Jillian Wallis, Department of Information Studies

Project description

The Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) is a National Science Foundation multi-institutional venture involved in the research, design and implementation of wireless sensor applications. The center draws on a diverse set of researchers within science and engineering, from distributed system design, to distributed robotics, to wireless communications, to signal processing and so on. Such multi-disciplinarity makes CENS an optimal environment to study patterns of collaboration among different research groups and departments. The visualization presented here was obtained using publication data contained in the CENS publication repository. It features a pictorial representation of co-authorship networks, using bibliographic information from roughly 600 publications and 270 authors. Various network maps were produced using parameters such as line strengths and node proximity to measure the extent of authorship collaboration.

CENS is funded by National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement #CCR-0120778 - Deborah L. Estrin, UCLA, Principal Investigator; Christine L. Borgman is a co-Principal Investigator. Alberto Pepe is funded by a gift from the Microsoft Technical Computing Initiative.

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