Longer face-to-face contact during a scientific event increases the likelihood that a researcher selects the other as a new potential collaboration partner¶
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q2 i? The duration of face-to-face contact had a positive significant effect on the initiation of new potential collaborations, with larger durations of contact yielding higher likelihoods (2.054 times for an hour of contact). → Eberle 2021
Evidence¶
Eberle 2021¶
Eberle, J., Stegmann, K., Barrat, A., Fischer, F., & Lund, K. (2021). Initiating scientific collaborations across career levels and disciplines – a network analysis on behavioral data. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-021-09345-7
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Meta-analysis across 12 workshops of RSiena stochastic actor-oriented models on RFID-measured contact and questionnaire-reported potential collaborations; the article reports a positive significant effect of contact duration on identifying new potential collaboration partners, noting "2.054 times for an hour of face-to-face contact".
"the duration of face-to-face contact during the workshop has a positive significant effect of 0.0002 (SE = 0.0001; p <.001, k = 12) on the initiation of new potential collaborations"
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
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- Transitivity, reciprocity and contact duration are relevant for researchers' identification of new potential collaboration partners at face-to-face events, as the editorial reports of Eberle et al. — a broader claim this one bears on
- Reciprocity predicts the initiation of new potential collaborations at scientific events — related
- Face-to-face contact durations at scientific events follow a heavy-tailed distribution, with 20-second contacts most common — related
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Longer face-to-face contact during a scientific event increases the likelihood that a researcher selects the other as a new potential collaboration partner |
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Longer face-to-face contact during a scientific event increases the likelihood that a researcher selects the other as a new potential collaboration partner |
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