NYCEP faculty, students, and alumni have 130 contributions to this year’s meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Austin from April 11-14. As I’ve done before, 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.

The largest co-authorship network (interactive plot below) includes clusters covering most of the areas of NYCEP research (human and primate evolution, primate behavior and evology, and genetics), with key links among the clusters provided by Eric Delson, Alex DeCasien, Chris Schmitt, and Andrea Baden.

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 2 presentations. Author colors, sizes, links, etc. all the same as above.