Global Multi-Level Analysis of the ‘Scientific Food Web' : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group

Global Multi-Level Analysis of the ‘Scientific Food Web' : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group
"A network perspective is important, because in many complex systems (such as the scientific ecosystem), interaction effects can be more relevant for the resulting system behavior than the properties of the interacting entities themselves. For example, it has been shown that author teams manage to be more successful than single authors^{11, 12, 13, 14}. The social, network-based character of knowledge diffusion underlines this perspective as well^{15, 16, 17}."