Atapuerca: evolution of scientific collaboration in an emergent large-scale research infrastructure

Authors:
Sergi Lozano;Xosé-Pedro Rodríguez;Alex Arenas
Affiliations:
IPHES, Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain 43007 and Area de Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain 43002;IPHES, Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain 43007 and Area de Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain 43002;IPHES, Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain 43007 and Departament dEnginyeria Informatica i Matematiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain ...
Venue:
Scientometrics
Year:
2014

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Abstract

We study the evolution of scientific collaboration at Atapuerca's archaeological complex along its emergence as a large-scale research infrastructure (LSRI). Using bibliometric and fieldwork data, we build and analyze co-authorship networks corresponding to the period 1992---2011. The analysis of such structures reveals a stable core of scholars with a long experience in Atapuerca's fieldwork, which would control coauthorship-related information flows, and a tree-like periphery mostly populated by `external' researchers. Interestingly, this scenario corresponds to the idea of a Equipo de Investigación de Atapuerca, originally envisioned by Atapuerca's first director 30 years ago. These results have important systemic implications, both in terms of resilience of co-authorship structures and of `oriented' or `guided' self-organized network growth. Taking into account the scientific relevance of LSRIs, we expect a growing number of quantitative studies addressing collaboration among scholars in this sort of facilities in general and, particularly, emergent phenomena like the Atapuerca case.