Gender’s Influence on Academic Collaboration in a University-Wide Network

Abstract

We present a collaboration network of the faculty of a large polytechnic state university in the United States. In our network vertices represent researchers: faculty members at the university and collaborators of these faculty members. Edges between two researchers in this network represent some sort of collaborative experience: conference publication, journal publication, or grant application. In this paper we present a study of this network and various subnetworks with respect to gender.