caa a22 4500 445349719 CHVBK 20180317142840.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-011-0434-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-011-0434-6 The structure and analysis of nanotechnology co-author and citation networks [Elektronische Daten] [Selen Onel, Abe Zeid, Sagar Kamarthi] Research activities and collaborations in nanoscale science and engineering have major implications for advancing technological frontiers in many fields including medicine, electronics, energy, and communication. The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) promotes efforts to cultivate effective research and collaborations among nano scientists and engineers to accelerate the advancement of nanotechnology and its commercialization. As of August 2008, there have been over 800 products considered to benefit from nanotechnology directly or indirectly. However, today's accomplishments in nanotechnology cannot be transformed into commercial products without productive collaborations among experts from disparate research areas such as chemistry, physics, math, biology, engineering, manufacturing, environmental sciences, and social sciences. To study the patterns of collaboration, we build and analyze the collaboration network of scientists and engineers who conduct research in nanotechnology. We study the structure of information flow through citation network of papers authored by nano area scientists. We believe that the study of nano area co-author and paper citation networks improve our understanding of patterns and trends of the current research efforts in this field. We construct these networks based on the publication data collected for years ranging 1993 through 2008 from the scientific literature database "Web of Science”. We explore those networks to find out whether they follow power-law degree distributions and/or if they have a signature of hierarchy. We investigate the small-world characteristics and the existence of possible community structures in those networks. We estimate the statistical properties of the networks and interpret their significance with respect to the nano field. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2011 Co-author network nationallicence Citation network nationallicence Nano technology nationallicence Onel Selen Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, 334 SN, 02115, Boston, MA, USA aut Zeid Abe Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, 334 SN, 02115, Boston, MA, USA aut Kamarthi Sagar Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, 334 SN, 02115, Boston, MA, USA aut Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 89/1(2011-10-01), 119-138 0138-9130 89:1<119 2011 89 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0434-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0434-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Onel Selen Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, 334 SN, 02115, Boston, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zeid Abe Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, 334 SN, 02115, Boston, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kamarthi Sagar Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, 334 SN, 02115, Boston, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 89/1(2011-10-01), 119-138 0138-9130 89:1<119 2011 89 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer