The growth of modern science is fastest along the borderlines between the traditional disciplines. Interdisciplinarity usually benefits all fields involved in a given research despite their diversity. In this short report, we analyze the current state of interdisciplinary science in Slovenia. By detecting the communities in co-authorship networks we investigate the raise of interdisciplinary research groups from 1960 to 2000. Our preliminary findings indicate that although interdisciplinarity is clearly gaining ground in Slovenian research landscape, there are still many barriers to overcome.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2048251155
In this paper we present results of research done on the network of Slovenian scholars, where nodes are research groups and there is a link between two groups if there exist at least one publication co-authored by at least one member of each of these groups. We put special focus to sub-networks created by research groups forming the so-called Competence centres (CC). Each of this CC received approximately 6.5 million EUR of research money for time span of four years to create new technological products and processes. Our expectation was that these strong financial impulses will also imply significant improvement of the network parameters describing size, productivity and connectivity of CC. We have realised that for the three CCs which we took into consideration this is not the case.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2048251667
The objective of this work was to create a web application that can generate subnetworks of Slovenian research collaboration, based on either research projects or publications. The two main databases that capture national research activity (SICRIS and COBISS) were integrated and plugged into the application, which enables generation of subnetworks with application of different criteria and filters. This work is relevant for further development of Slovenian research network analysis.
COBISS.SI-ID: 27236391