The Evolutions of the Rich get Richer and the Fit get Richer Phenomena in Scholarly Networks: The Case of the Strategic Management Journal

Understanding how a scientist develops new scientific collaborations or how their papers receive new citations is a major challenge in scientometrics. The approach being proposed simultaneously examines the growth processes of the co-authorship and citation networks by analyzing the evolutions of the rich get richer and the fit get richer phenomena. In particular, the preferential attachment function and author fitnesses, which govern the two...