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most citedAnalysing Scientific Collaborations of New Zealand Institutions using Scopus Bibliometric Data

20 citations · 23 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.DL2021

International Migration in Academia and Citation Performance: An Analysis of German-Affiliated Researchers by Gender and Discipline Using Scopus Publications 1996-2020

Xinyi Zhao, Samin Aref, Emilio Zagheni +1

Germany has become a major country of immigration, as well as a research powerhouse in Europe. As Germany spends a higher fraction of its GDP on research and development than most…

cs.SI2020

Multilevel Structural Evaluation of Signed Directed Social Networks based on Balance Theory

Samin Aref, Ly Dinh, Rezvaneh Rezapour +1

Balance theory explains the forces behind the structure of social systems, which are commonly modeled as static undirected signed networks. We expand this modeling approach to inco…

cs.DL2020

Scholarly migration within Mexico: Analyzing internal migration among researchers using Scopus longitudinal bibliometric data

Andrea Miranda-González, Samin Aref, Tom Theile +1

The migration of scholars is a major driver of innovation and of diffusion of knowledge. Although large-scale bibliometric data have been used to measure international migration of…

cs.DL2019

The demography of the peripatetic researcher: Evidence on highly mobile scholars from the Web of Science

Samin Aref, Emilio Zagheni, Jevin West

The policy debate around researchers' geographic mobility has been moving away from a theorized zero-sum game in which countries can be winners (brain gain) or losers (brain drain)…

cs.SI2019

Detecting coalitions by optimally partitioning signed networks of political collaboration

Samin Aref, Zachary Neal

We propose new mathematical programming models for optimal partitioning of a signed graph into cohesive groups. To demonstrate the approach's utility, we apply it to identify coali…

cs.SI20193 cited

Signed Network Structural Analysis and Applications with a Focus on Balance Theory

Samin Aref

We analyse signed networks from the perspective of balance theory which predicts structural balance as a global structure for signed social networks that represent groups of friend…