Published online 8 October 2008 | Nature 455, 720-723 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455720a
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Collaboration: Group theory
What makes a successful team? John Whitfield looks at research that uses massive online databases and network analysis to come up with some rules of thumb for productive collaborations....
By mapping which authors collaborated with whom (lines) and when (colour of lines), Katy Börner and her colleagues show how networks extend with time and how the impact of both an author (thickness of nodes) and a partnership (thickness of lines) can grow. See animation.W. KE, L. VISVANATH & K. BÖRNER
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