To Succeed, Find a Career Partner
Super-partnerships exist between scholars connected within densely-knit collaboration networks. Understanding how such relationships affect scholars’ careers is of great importance. In this paper, focusing on the longitudinal aspects of scientific collaboration, we analyze collaboration profiles from the egocentric perspective and use analytic extreme value thresholds to identify super-partners. We explore the characteristics of super-partners and the added value of a long-term commitment, which provides quantitative insights into the effect on scientific collaboration associated with close collaboration.
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