The impact of scientific collaboration networks on researcher performance

The national project aimed at analyzing the networks of scientific collaboration between researchers. In this regard, the local unit of Catania has the task of creating a dataset of all the researchers belonging to Area 13 and 14 and structuring a survey aimed at detecting informal collaboration networks. To this end, the research fellow must support the local unit (1) in the preliminary research phase; (2) in the creation of a dataset of formal collaborations between scholars also using web-scraping techniques; (3) structuring, validating and conducting a survey aimed at detecting informal collaboration networks; (4) in analyzing the results of the survey also through network analysis tools; (5) in the identification, through textual analysis techniques, of the most widespread research topics for each area considered, following their variations over time.