Co-authorship network of national researchers of Social Sciences in Mexico

Abstract

In Mexico, the most outstanding researchers are distinguished by the National Council of Science and Technology. Although, in the international literature, researcher's co-authorship networks and their impact on efficacy have been studied, in Mexico this type of studies is showing a greater boom, so the objective of this paper is to analyze the structure of the network of co-authorships of the researchers in Social Sciences level 3 of the country. For this purpose, the research method was based on the theory of networks and specifically on topology metrics. One of the conclusions of the research is that the researchers under study publish in a similar proportion individually or collaboratively, configuring a fragmented co-authorship network with a main component with properties that are explained by both the small-world and the free-scale model.