Figure 7

Scientific collaboration network of researchers at the National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN) and their extended partners - network 1. Panel A presents a SCN that includes collaboration of INMEGEN researchers but in which collaborators external to INMEGEN -otherwise not connected with each other- have been left out. We can see that this network presents a topology resembling that of Network 1 but decimated in the number of links. Panel B depicts the same network, nodes are size-coded and color-coded according with their connectivity degree. The presence of a couple of well-connected individuals (bigger red nodes) as well as a number of medium-high connected ones (orange mid-sized nodes) points out to the existence of some kind of hierarchic structure. In this Network, the presence of localized hubs (that we may later identify as group leaders) is more evident. In panel C we can see the connectivity degree distribution that shows a power-law behavior with no further appearance of the incidental collaboration anomaly. In panel D we can see the average clustering coefficient displaying again a power-law like behavior. Panel E presents the short path length distribution, which is also a quasi-symmetric unimodal but with a less-defined expected value (between three and four steps) for the separation length.