Co-authorship networks: 40 years of collaborations in the journal Criminologie
While scientific research usually seeks to understand the world around it, it occasionally looks at itself in an attempt to better understand how scientific knowledge is produced. These attempts have resulted in an important literature on the networks of collaborations that develop between the authors of scientific texts. The general objective of such research is to explain the structure of collaborations and to identify the corollaries such collaborations have in the academic world. This article aims to fill a gap in knowledge about francophone collaboration networks by studying 40 years of collaborations between Criminologie authors. The methodological approach is both egocentric and sociometric, which makes it possible to capture the links between co-authors. Results show an increase in collaborations over time but not necessarily the creation of a single community of authors who control the diffusion of knowledge in the journal. While there are key players, they change over time.