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. 2017 Apr 12;12(4):e0175419. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175419

Table 1. Summary statistics for the co-authorship networks based on methodology quality.

All Low quality Moderate quality High quality
1. Whole network statistics Nodes Number of nodes 955 288 576 216
Number of authors 735 228 455 181
Number of papers 220 61 121 35
Edges Number of edges (unique) 1,349 371 763 215
Papers by author 1.8 (1-26) 1.6 (1-10) 1.7 (1-16) 1.2 (1-3)
Author per paper 6.3 (2-20) 6.2 (2-15) 6.3 (2-20) 6.1 (3-16)
Average collaborators 8.9 (2-14) 9.3 (2-15) 8.9 (2-20) 7.9 (3-16)
Edge density 2.8 2.5 2.6 1.9
Average distance 6.3 3.2 2.8 2.7
Network diameter 14 8 6 10
2. Centrality Activity: Degree 0.024 0.043 0.03 0.065
Efficiency: Closeness 0.0004 0.001 0.0003 0.0008
Control: Betweenness 0.034 0.020 0.005 0.013
Overall: Eigenvector 0.96 0.92 0.95 0.97
3. Community detection Connectance 0.003 0.009 0.004 0.009
Clustering coefficient 0 0 0 0
Compartmentalization 0.004 0.015 0.007 0.026
Assortativity 0.44 0.12 0.28 -0.61
Number of communities 90 37 65 25
Modularity 0.90 0.76 0.89 0.93
Giant component size (%) 225 60 (20.8%) 69 (12%) 31 (14.3%)

Results of main statistics of whole author-paper affiliation network and included subnetworks corresponding to SRs and MAs on psoriasis of low, moderate, and high methodological quality.