Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary research field that applies advanced computational techniques to biological data. Bibliometrics analysis has recently been adopted to understand the knowledge structure of a research field by citation pattern. In this paper, we explore the knowledge structure of Bioinformatics from the perspective of a core open access Bioinformatics journal, BMC Bioinform...

A tie is a link between two persons in a social network. Here, we analyze tie strength in temporal co-authorship social networks by measuring ties persistence and transformation over time. Surprisingly, most ties tend to perish over time. Also, weak and random ties are more present in real co-authorship networks than bridges and strong ones.

This report from the field provides reflection on author’s experience of co-authoring a peer-reviewed manuscript with community partners for publication in an academic journal. The reflects existential, logistical, and process-related challenges applying community-based research delivering its promise knowledge co-creation while grappling inequities imbedded realities non-academic life. Reflect...

Co-authorship networks, an important type of social networks, have been studied extensively from various angles such as degree distribution analysis, social community extraction and social entity ranking. Most of the previous studies consider the co-authorship relation between two authors as a collaboration. In this paper, we introduce a novel and interesting “supportiveness” measure on co-auth...