Scientometrics for Coauthorship of Big Science: A case study of LHC

摘要

In conclusion, the coauthorship of big science has promising and encouraging results. The major finding is that 1. The coauthorship of big science is large-scale: per paper have about 18 coauthors, and some papers have thousands of authors. 2. The coauthorship of big science is centralized: every author has many coauthors. Especially, the average amount of the coauthors per productive author is about 136. 3. The coauthorship network composed of productive authors is a small-world network: average distance of the network is 1.6241, and its average cluster coefficient is 0.855.