NYCEP faculty, students, and alumni have 128 contributions to this year’s meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in New Orleans from April 19-22. As I did before for ISP/ASP 2016, I compiled the co-authorship network for these presentations. I previously posted the list of NYCEP presentations. I processed these data in Python, normalizing author names and 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 Will Harcourt-Smith is the central node in the large co-authorship network, as can be seen in the interactive plot of just this network below. Will has direct co-authorship links with his students as well as Herman Pontzer’s and Kieran McNulty’s research groups. Lee Berger is the bridge to a cluster of presentations around Scott Williams and his collaborators.

In the plot below, 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 (authors listed here have 3+ contributions and labeled on the plot have 2+ contributions). These networks are anchored by NYCEP faculty Shara Bailey, Jessica Rothman, Larissa Swedell and NYCEP alumni Siobhan Cooke, Steve Frost, Andres Link, Shannon McFarlin, Varsha Pilbrow, Chris Schmitt, Chet Sherwood, Nelson Ting, and Tony Tosi. Author colors, sizes, links, etc. all the same as above.