NYCEP faculty, students, and alumni have 116 contributions to this year’s joint meeting of the International Primatologial Society and the American Society of Primatologists in Chicago from August 22-26. I thought it would be interesting to look at the co-authorship network for these presentations. I previously posted the list of NYCEP presentations to the NYCEP blog. I processed these data in Python, normalizing author names and manually identifying NYCEP faculty, students, and alumni (“NYCEP authors” hereafter).

A quick network plot shows one large co-authorship network and many smaller clusters. In this plot, nodes are authors, connections among nodes indicate co-authorship, and NYCEP authors are in orange.

CUNY/NYCEP professor Jessica Rothman is the central node in the large co-authorship network, as can be seen in the interactive plot of just this network below. Jessica has direct co-authorship links with her students and Marina Cords’ research group. Colin Chapman is the bridge to presentations co-authored by NYCEP alumni Kirstin Sterner and Nelson Ting of the Molecular Anthropology Group at the University of Oregon. Amanda Melin and Shoji Kawamura provide the link to work co-authored by NYCEP alumni Eva Garrett, Mike Montague, and Chris Schmitt. Maria van Noordwijk links research by NYCEP resource faculty Roberto Delgado and NYCEP alum Stephanie Spehar. Carson Murray begins the longest chain of co-author linkages, bridging the gap to work including NYCEP resource faculty Tim Bromage and NYCEP alum Shannon McFarlin; Donald Reid extends the co-author chain to presentations including NYCEP alum Wendy Dirks; finally, Robin Bernstein links the chain back to NYCEP faculty Todd Disotell and Cliff Jolly of the NYU Molecular Primatology Lab and alumni Andy Burrell and Christina Bergey.

In this plot, NYCEP authors with 2 or more presentations and key connecting authors are labeled; if you hover over any other author node, their name will pop-up. In addition, nodes can be dragged and re-arranged for better visibility of connections (click, hold, and drag on any node). The size of each node is proportional to the number of presentations and the thickness of lines connecting authors is proportional to the number of co-authored presentations.

The plot below shows all the co-author networks containing at least one NYCEP author with at least 3 presentations. These networks are anchored by NYCEP faculty Andrea Baden, James Higham, Herman Pontzer, and Larissa Swedell, and by NYCEP alumni Michelle Brown, Kate Detwiler, Peter Fashing, Katy Gonder, and Reiko Matsuda Goodwin. Author colors, sizes, links, etc. all the same as above.