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SUMMARY
Academic social networks do not necessarily translate into effective collaborative research networks (networks of researchers connected by collaboration); individual characteristics of researchers in networks are considered to play a significant role in their development. In research on academic collaboration, the logic of network embeddedness (friends of friends tending to become friends) and preferential attachment (individuals seeking out relationships preferentially with others who are popular already) has demonstrated that researchers tend to connect with the connections-of-their-connections and with well-connected researchers. The aims of this study are to increase knowledge on the . . .
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