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The Interplay between Scientific Overlap and Cooperation and the Resulting Gain
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Considering the importance of scientific interactions, understanding the
principles that govern fruitful scientific research is crucial to policy makers
and scientists alike. The outcome of an interaction is to a large extent
dependent on the balancing of contradicting motivations accompanying the
establishment of collaborations. Here, we assembled a dataset of nearly 20,000
publications authored by researchers affiliated with ten top universities. Based
on this data collection, we estimated the extent of different interaction types
between pairwise combinations of researchers. We explored the interplay between
the overlap in scientific interests and the tendency to collaborate, and
associated these estimates with measures of scientific quality and social
accessibility aiming at studying the typical resulting gain of different
interaction patterns. Our results show that scientists tend to collaborate more
often with colleagues with whom they share moderate to high levels of mutual
interests and knowledge while cooperative tendency declines at higher levels of
research-interest overlap, suggesting fierce competition, and at the lower
levels, suggesting communication gaps. Whereas the relative number of alliances
dramatically differs across a gradient of research overlap, the scientific impact
of the resulting articles remains similar. When considering social accessibility,
we find that though collaborations between remote researchers are relatively
rare, their quality is significantly higher than studies produced by close-circle
scientists. Since current collaboration patterns do not necessarily overlap with
gaining optimal scientific quality, these findings should encourage scientists to
reconsider current collaboration strategies.