Competition and collaboration in the miRNA science field

Artemiy Firsov¹, Igor Titov²
¹Institute of Informatics Systems, a.firsov@g.nsu.ru
²Institute of Cytology and Genetics, titov@bionet.nsc.ru

In this work we present the analysis of the characteristics of institutions interactions in the miRNA science field using the data from PubMed digital library.

We identified the leaders of the field – China, USA -, characterized the interactions and described the country level features of co-authorship. We observed that the USA were leading in the publication activity until China took the lead 4 years ago. However, the USA are the main co-authorship driver in this field.

We have also identified the pioneers and show, that they are the leaders of co-authorship activity. We compare the publications activity patterns on the organization level, identifying leaders. We compare the organization interaction graph with the authors interaction graph, and provide additional insights of miRNA science field evolution.