Integration by Parts: Collaboration and Topic Structure in the CogSci Community

Is cognitive science interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary? We contribute to this debate by examining the authorship structure and topic similarity of contributions Cognitive Science Society from 2000 2019. Our analysis focuses on graph theoretic features co-authorship network—edge density, transitivity, maximum subgraph size—as well as clustering within space scientific topics. also combine structural semantic information with an how authors choose their collaborators based interests prior collaborations. compare findings CogSci abstracts Vision over same time frame validate our approach predicting new collaborations in 2020 proceedings. results suggest that collaboration across topics has become increasingly integrated last 19 years. More broadly, we argue a formal quantitative which combines provides inroads questions about level community.