Corvinus University of Budapest, Institute of Sociology and Social Policy
Abstract
The article deals with some processes generating increases in research
collaboration; one of the most characteristic tendencies of modern science. The
major empirical focus is the increasing tendency to co-authorship in sociological
publications in Slovenia. Bibliometric analyses, based on two joint national
research information systems (SICRIS and COBISS), show the amount of coauthored
publications in the field of sociology have increased over the last two
decades. Blockmodeling of co-authorship networks in sociology has shown that
sociologists who are not systematically tied to strongly connected and wellestablished
research groups produce the best scientific publications in their field