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. 2021 Nov;289:114450. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114450

Table 4.

Cumulative structural and network metrics over time.

Year 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020
Total SRs 5 10 20 42 60
Total Authors 15 38 62 149 231
Average SRs/author 1.133 1.105 1.435 1.349 1.329
Average authors/SR 3.4 (17/5) 4.2 (42/10) 4.5 (89/20) 4.8 (201/42) 5.1 (307/60)
Co-authorships 26 78 138 442 713
Network Density 0.248 0.111 0.073 0.040 0.027
Conclusions of protective effect 4 (80%) 10 (60%) 13 (65%) 29 (70%) 39 (65%)
Alcohol industry funding author histories 3 (60%) 4 (40%) 9 (45%) 13 (31%) 14 (23%)
Number of subnetworks 3 7 13 24 31
Subnetworks with alcohol industry funding histories 2 3 5 5 5

NB Network Density refers to the number of observed connections relative to the number of possible connections. The more dense the network the more connected it is.